InCommon Operations Notifications

[Tom Scavo <>]

This is a followup to the previous message sent on Wed, Jun 20 (below). 
Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide feedback. As a result, we 
made a number of modifications to the tool used to probe browser-facing 
endpoints in metadata.

Since we are using curl, the custom codes used previously have been replaced 
with curl exit codes. The first field of each line in the liveness log file 
is a curl exit code. These exit codes are described in the wiki. [1]

Two lists of entities are provided: dead entities and crippled entities. [1] 
An entity is dead if all of its endpoint probes fail. An entity is crippled 
if at least one of its endpoint probes fails. Timeouts are not considered 
when categorizing entities as "dead" or "crippled," which is done to exclude 
firewalled SPs from both of the lists (at the risk of missing some dead or 
crippled SPs).

There are 51 dead entities (4 IdPs) and 16 crippled entities in metadata. If 
your IdP is dead, repair it immediately. If one of your SPs is dead or 
crippled, please investigate ASAP. Visit our wiki for more information.

[1] https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/BorYAQ 

----- Original Message -----
> Over the last few days, InCommon Operations has actively probed
> browser-facing endpoints in metadata for liveness. This probe
> revealed 183 dead entities in metadata. Complete results of the
> probe are available in the wiki [1]. Please check to see if you have
> any dead entities in metadata. These need to be repaired or removed
> as soon as possible.
> 
> [1] https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/BorYAQ