Dear site-admins,
As you are well aware of, CentOS 7 is going to reach its end of life at the end of this month, and this implies that all the endpoints running middleware and software on that OS should be either decommissioned or upgraded to a supported version.
Unfortunately it wasn't possible to publish well in advance the UMD 5 release containing the middleware products for EL9, and this is also one of the reasons why we didn't start the procedure https://confluence.egi.eu/display/EGIPP/PROC16+Decommissioning+of+unsupported+software months ago according to the timeline described there.
Anyway, the UMD team is working to publish soon the first version of the new release, and when this happens, you will be properly notified.
In the meantime, we would like to encourage you to plan/start/continue with the decommission and/or upgrade of the CentOS7 endpoints, by taking the new middleware versions from the following locations:
- EPEL
- WLCG repository (kindly provided by WLCG) in particular for products like APEL, BDII, UI, WN, CVMFS, and a few others:
https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/wlcg/el8/x86_64/
https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/wlcg/el9/x86_64/
- repository of the given middleware product if needed
Please note that StoRM is not yet available on EL9: the WebDAV component should be released before the end of June, with the other components released afterwards.
We will coordinate differently the upgrade of the StoRM endpoints, maybe with specific tickets to the sites as soon as we get news form the StoRM team; at the moment there are 31 StoRM endpoints published in the BDII that should be either migrated or decommissioned.
Concerning the VOMS endpoints, they should be upgraded as well as soon as the EL9 version is released, as also explained in the notes of the last Operations meeting:
https://confluence.egi.eu/display/EGIBG/2024-06-10+notes#id-20240610notes-VOMSupgradecampaigntoEL9
There is also the option to upgrade VOMS to EL8 as explained in the notes.
The VOMS endpoints upgrade will be followed up with tickets to the sites with more detailed instructions.
Finally, we made the request to enable a monitoring probe to detect the endpoints runnning on CentOS7:
https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=167352
From July 1st the metric will return a CRITICAL status and the ROD teams will open ticket through the dashboard in order to track and to urge the sites with the OS migration.
Best regards,
EGI Operations