[Dev] [All-centers] issue notification: CLARIN Identity Provider temporarily unavailable

[Willem Elbers]

Dear All,

the maintenance has finished and the IdP should be available again.

Best,
Willem

On 17/11/15 09:21, Willem Elbers wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I will start updating the IdP configuration at 9:30 CET (in about 10
> minutes). During this maintenance the IdP can be intermittently
> unavailable. I'll inform you when the maintenance is finished.
> 
> Best,
> Willem
> 
> On 16/11/15 21:46, Dieter Van Uytvanck wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> the impacted services (as listed below) are available again. Sorry for
>> the annoyance, but this was a non-trivial problem that took a bit of
>> time to grasp.
>>
>> A deeper analysis (thanks to Sander and Willem) revealed that the new
>> X.509v3 root CA-signed certificate SSL is incompatible with the LDAP
>> server we use (OpenDJ). As a workaround the old certificate has been
>> installed again on the LDAP server, which in turn required updating the
>> configuration of some LDAP clients. Most of that has been taken care of,
>> it might be that the CLARIN Identity Provider needs to be restarted in
>> the course of Tuesday - which could result in a downtime of a few
>> minutes. This will be announced beforehand.
>>
>> On the longer term this issue will be addressed by the migration of our
>> current LDAP server to UnityIDM - in the context of CLARIN-PLUS.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Dieter
>>
>>
>> On 16/11/15 15:33, Dieter Van Uytvanck wrote:
>>> The impact:
>>>
>>> - the existing CLARIN Identity Provider accounts still work; only newly
>>> created accounts (after 12:30 today) cannot be used since the
>>> synchronisation is currently unavailable
>>>
>>> - trac.clarin.eu is still unavailable; svn.clarin.eu works (but only in
>>> read-only mode)
>>>
>>> - infra.clarin.eu was unavailable during a few minutes this afternoon
>>> when the server was rebooting but is available since then
>>>
>>> - it is not possible to login to www.clarin.eu since this also depends
>>> on the LDAP server
>>
>>
> 

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Willem Elbers
CLARIN ERIC
www.clarin.eu | tel: +31-(0)85-0091277 | skype: wjm.elbers