[RU-NGI] Fwd: [Noc-managers] [ EGI BROADCAST ] UMD-2/EMI-2 decommissioning calendar

[Alexander Kryukov]

FYI


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Subject: [Noc-managers] [ EGI BROADCAST ] UMD-2/EMI-2 decommissioning 
calendar
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:52:49 +0100
From: EGI BROADCAST <cic-information at in2p3.fr>
To: NGI managers/global_email <noc-managers at mailman.egi.eu>

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EGI BROADCAST TOOL : https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast

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Publication from : Peter Solagna <peter.solagna at egi.eu>
Targets : NGI managers/global_email <noc-managers at mailman.egi.eu>
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Dear Resource Centre Administrators and VO Managers.

The EMI-2 software will reach end of security updates and support on
30-04-2014
(http://www.eu-emi.eu/releases#MajRel).

In compliance to the EGI Service Operations Security Policy
(https://documents.egi.eu/document/669) [1], unsupported software SHOULD be
decommissioned or updated to a supported version before its End of Security
Updates and Support, and MUST be retired no later than 1 month after its 
End
of Security Updates and Support. After this date, if a critical 
vulnerability
were to emerge in the software, EGI CSIRT can request the service to be 
shut
down immediately [2].

Because of this, as of March 03 2014, Resource Centre Administrators will
start getting alerts about EMI 2 products deployed in their site. The 
list of
the affected service end-points will be available on the Operations 
Dashboard
of your site: https://operations-portal.egi.eu/dashboard.

Purpose of these alarms is to:
1- pro-actively alert administrators about the need to upgrade EMI-2 
services
before they reach end of security updates and support;
2- collect information about decommissioning/upgrade plans of the affected
products.

IMPORTANT. According to the EGI decommissioning policy [2], the
decommissioning deadline expires one month after the end of security 
updates
and support of the software.
For EMI 2 products the hard deadline is: 31-05-2014 [3].

EMI 2 software versions are in general detected through nagios tests, which
query the information discovery system (BDII), on whose accuracy they 
depend
on.

Please get in touch with your NGI operations staff for more information, or
open a GGUS ticket.

Best wishes
Peter Solagna - EGI Operations

[1] a Resource Centre Administrator ''SHOULD follow IT security best
practices that include pro-actively applying software patches, updates or
configuration changes related to security''.
[2] https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC16#Policy
[3]
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Software_Retirement_Calendar#Decommissioning_Calendar_EMI2

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