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Planned outages of GBIF.org / TDWG.org
by Tim Robertson 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear all, Our apologies in advance, but we expect disruptions in both GBIF and TDWG services next week, Thursday and Friday, 22-23 June 2017. Partial outages may occur while we relocate the servers for GBIF's and TDWG's systems to a new data centre within the University of Copenhagen. During this move, we anticipate that GBIF.org, demo.GBIF.org and the GBIF API will continue to operate on temporary servers, though user account creation, dataset registration and dataset crawling will all be temporarily suspended. The TDWG website and all TDWG mailing lists are likely to remain offline throughout the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience and will strive to reduce the disruption and its duration as much as possible. Best wishes, Tim

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IPT upgrade
by Julien Cigar 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hello, We have a bunch of IPT's installed here and in order to automate IPT upgrades I'd like to know if it's enough to just create the missing $ROOT/WEB-INF/datadir.location once the WAR has been updated? I'm asking this because I have 8 IPT instances and it becomes tedious (and I'm lazy) to go through all th 8 web interfaces just to enter the IPT datadir on every upgrade .. Thanks! Julien -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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IPT new version 2.3.4
by CALDENTEY Marta 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Dear Kyle, We have tried to upgrade our UAT environment and we get the following error. We also tried to request to https://gbrds.gbif-uat.org but we have no answer. Is this environment working? Kind regards, Marta [cid:image001.png@01D29C11.CFCC1040] Ing. Marta B. Caldentey Direccion de Sistemas de Informacion Mincyt Int 1014

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New version 2.3.4 with security update
by Kyle Braak 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Dear IPT users, This is an important message. IPT administrators should update their IPTs to the new version 2.3.4 available for download here<http://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/2.3.4/ipt-2.3.4…> [1], which has a security update. Note this version requires Java8 to run and instructions on how to upgrade to this version can be found in the Release Notes<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki> [2]. The security update fixes a critical vulnerability<https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-045.html> [3] that has been discovered in the Apache Struts web framework, which the IPT uses. According to this article<http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/apache-struts-framework.html> [4], this is a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to execute malicious commands on the IPT server. It also says that hackers are actively exploiting this vulnerability. If you don't have time to update your IPT immediately, I would advise you to take it offline until you can. Sincerely, Kyle Braak IPT Product Manager GBIF Secretariat [1] http://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/2.3.4/ipt-2.3.4… [2] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki [3] https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-045.html [4] http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/apache-struts-framework.html

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Registering a new data provider
by Quentin Groom 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

I administer an IPT and would like to publish a checklist on the IPT that comes from a university in another country. How can we register that organisation as the origin of the data? Regards Quentin Dr. Quentin Groom (Botany and Information Technology) Botanic Garden Meise Domein van Bouchout B-1860 Meise Belgium ORCID: 0000-0002-0596-5376 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376> Landline; +32 (0) 226 009 20 ext. 364 FAX: +32 (0) 226 009 45 E-mail: quentin.groom(a)plantentuinmeise.be Skype name: qgroom Website: www.botanicgarden.be

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IPT v2.3.3 released
by Kyle Braak 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Dear IPT users, The GBIF Secretariat is pleased to announce that IPT v2.3.3 has now been released and is available for download from the IPT website<http://www.gbif.org/ipt> [1]. This version looks and feels the same as v2.3.2 but is much more robust and secure. I'd like to recommend that all existing IPT installations be upgraded as soon as possible following the instructions listed in the release notes<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki> [2]. You can find out more about the new features added to this version in this blog post<http://gbif.blogspot.dk/2017/01/ipt-v233-your-repository-for.html> [3]. I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone that contributed to the making of this new release, and I hope you all enjoy using this latest version! Best regards, Kyle Braak IPT Product Manager GBIF Secretariat [1] http://www.gbif.org/ipt [2] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPTReleaseNotes233.wiki [3] http://gbif.blogspot.dk/2017/01/ipt-v233-your-repository-for.html

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high availability
by Julien Cigar 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hello, I'm busy to setup some HA/LB for our services here, and IPT is the next candidate. I wondered if some sort of locking is implemented in the IPT code to avoid possible corruption of the data directory if shared between the instances (through NFS4)? Thanks, Julien -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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Pre-release v2.3.3
by Kyle Braak 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Dear IPT users, A pre-release version of IPT v2.3.3 is online for wider testing at http://ipt.gbif-uat.org/ It can also be downloaded here<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4552753/ipt-2.3.3-SNAPSHOT-r3874f0a.war>[1] if you're interested, but please note that it is not yet ready to be installed in production. More than thirty bug fixes and enhancements are included in this version. Here are a few of its most notable changes: * Counts for all files in the DwC-A are now exposed on the resource homepage. This addresses an <https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1130> enhancement<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1130>[2] requested by Laura Russell. View this example resource<http://ipt.gbif-uat.org/resource?r=bms_il_demo#dataRecords>[3] to see how it looks. * The interface has been translated into Russian thanks to the efforts of Ivan Chadin and several other dedicated volunteers. * The application can now be installed on a server behind a proxy, thanks to a fix<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/pull/1239>[4] submitted by Bruno P. Kinoshita. Note this project page in GitHub<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/projects/1>[5] provides a nice overview of all the issues addressed in this version, in case you're interested. At this stage, more rigorous testing is needed to ensure that the new version is as robust as possible. Then if no major issues are uncovered during the next few weeks of testing, IPT v2.3.3 will be released. So if you have a little time to help test that would be greatly appreciated. You can do so by logging on to http://ipt.gbif-uat.org and trying it out. If you need a new account setup or have problems accessing your existing account, please just send an email to helpdesk(a)gbif.org asking for help. As always you can use the GitHub issue tracker<https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues>[6] to report new issues. Thank you for your attention and help. Best regards, Kyle Braak IPT Product Manager GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark http://www.gbif.org [1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4552753/ipt-2.3.3-SNAPSHOT-r3874f0a.war [2] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1130 [3] http://ipt.gbif-uat.org/resource?r=bms_il_demo#dataRecords [4] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/pull/1239 [5] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/projects/1 [6] https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues

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Re: [IPT] IPT Digest, Vol 68, Issue 2
by Julien Husson 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Thank you David ... note to myself RTFM ... Best On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <ipt-request(a)lists.gbif.org> wrote: > Send IPT mailing list submissions to > ipt(a)lists.gbif.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ipt-request(a)lists.gbif.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ipt-owner(a)lists.gbif.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of IPT digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Disabled archive resource history (David Valentim Dias) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:59:37 -0300 > From: David Valentim Dias <dvdscripter(a)gmail.com> > To: "ipt(a)lists.gbif.org list" <ipt(a)lists.gbif.org> > Subject: Re: [IPT] Disabled archive resource history > Message-ID: > <CAAy4ZDSc=ucHDaTGcaasuiF+oGkFHdr4a9B8hqMAPhG98SK16A@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > With Admin user logged go to "Administration" -> "IPT Settings" -> uncheck > "Archival Mode" -> "Save" > > 2016-09-08 5:41 GMT-03:00 Julien Husson <biology.info(a)gmail.com>: > > > Dear all, > > > > Is it possible to disabled historical version; it cause me some trouble, > i > > got > > *IOException*: *No space* left on device > > > > 1/ ask my admin to increase my space drive > > > > 2/ hack IPT ? > > > > Best > > > > Julien > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IPT mailing list > > IPT(a)lists.gbif.org > > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/ipt > > > > >

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Disabled archive resource history
by Julien Husson 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Dear all, Is it possible to disabled historical version; it cause me some trouble, i got *IOException*: *No space* left on device 1/ ask my admin to increase my space drive 2/ hack IPT ? Best Julien

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