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Aug

Grid wide “places” search reactivated.

By nebadon2025 Leave a Comment

Categories: Frontpage, Region Spotlight and Uncategorized

Hello Everyone,

I am happy to announce that we have revived the places search this week, I would like to thank Andrew Hellershanks and Melanie Milland for helping us work out some last minute bugs to get things working smoothly with search. If you want to get your Region’s/Parcels listed in the places search you must download the latest OSgrid release (OSgrid OpenSimulator 0.6.9.post-fixes.116bcb2 – [zip] [22.4mb] 08-21-2010). Once you have updated your simulator software you will need to ensure that you have “Show Places in Search” box checked in the “About Land” panel on the Options tab. It might take a few hours for your regions to be indexed and for any changes you make to your parcel description after the initial indexing. Be sure to use key words that relate to what your region/parcel is offering, IE: if you offer freebies be sure to mention that in the parcel description on the About Land > General tab for each parcel you want listed. If you have any questions about getting your regions into the search index please join us on the Web Chat / IRC @ irc.freenode.net #osgrid and ask for some help.
-Nebadon Izumi

Jul

**GRID OFFLINE – UPDATES!

By nebadon2025 Leave a Comment

Categories: Disruptions & Downtime, Frontpage and Uncategorized

Hello everyone,

First, let me apologize for the grid downtime, for those who are not aware of whats happening, late on Sunday evening it came to our attention that a handful of peoples inventories were reset. Since we were not sure what was happening we immediately downed the grid in case bad things were still occurring. We began a database restore for comparison, but because of our current backup server configurations, ie. Software Raid, this machines ability to restore the database is amazingly slow. On another note some good news, this hardware is scheduled for this week to begin phase 1 of the hardware upgrade to fancy new high-power Hardware raid adapters, sadly this would have already been done a few weeks ago, but unfortunately we ordered the wrong 1u riser boards for our servers and the upgrade had to be rescheduled until we found the proper parts, not so easy!! anyway back to the real issue, because we found out so late about the issue on Sunday night, our volunteer staff tried to stay as long as we possibly could without being so tired that we would likely do more harm than good to the databases. So I again want to apologize to everyone that we could not stay up all night and fix the servers as quickly as we would like, but you can rest assured that we will be back early in the A.M. on Monday morning trying to make things as right as we can for everyone who is having issues. Until the database restore is complete we will not have any good explanation as to what really happened, but as soon as we do know i promise you all will know as well, Thank you for your understanding, it is a great pleasure to work with the great citizens of this grid, if you have any questions or would like to report you had inventory issues before the grid went down, please post on the following forum thread : [Grid Downtime Discussion]

Michael Emory Cerquoni (Nebadon Izumi) President, OSgrid Inc.

Jul

OSG3B Load Test (Friday July 16 5pm PST)

By nebadon2025 Leave a Comment

Categories: Events, Frontpage, Region Spotlight and Uncategorized

Hello Again Everyone,

As you all know OSgrids 3rd Birthday is coming up July 22-26 and we would like to perform some load tests on the Celebration region this weekend, The 1st test will be 5pm PST this Friday (July 16). I would like to get around 50 people on “OSG3B Celebration” So if you have some time on Friday night lets everyone gather up some friends and meet at this region to see how things hold up. We will probably do some more load tests over the weekend depending on how this 1st round goes, I will update with times as we figure things out. Also just a reminder we do have some open spaces left, so if you are interested in putting up a parcel display or even just some smaller displays around the sim please contact me on the forums or in world and let me know what you want to do. Also, if you are a DJ or Musical performer, or even know friends who are and would like to perform at OSG3B we would love to have you, again just contact me on the forums on in world and we can work out times and locations. Also Eryn Galen is making a OSGazet Special Edition OSG3B, and if you would like to advertise anything or contribute articles about OSgrid or OSG3B please contact her on the forums or in world. That is really all i have for now, but keep checking back and check out the forums for times events and things to come. Thanks to everyone who already has contributed, lets make OSG3B the best OSgrid Birthday yet!!

Thanks Everyone

You can leave comments or schedule events and request party parcels here : http://osgrid.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=25

Apr

New Release 0.6.9-post-fixes (r/12488)

By OSGrid 3 Comments

Categories: Frontpage and Uncategorized

Hello again everyone, I just wanted to post this notice that this new version is safe to use on OSgrid, this new version contains some of the newest OpenSimulator fixes but still remains compatible with the current state of OSgrid, please note this upgrade is not required, but if your interested in trying out a somewhat newer version of OpenSimulator on OSgrid then give it a go, and please report any issues you find to IRC or the Web Chat on the main website, forums and also Mantis.

Download New version here: http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/utilities/software

Mar

*UPGRADE WARNING: Please read this!

By OSGrid 2 Comments

Categories: Frontpage and Uncategorized

Hello again everyone, I bring more news about the refactoring process. First let me start by stressing how important it is you do not update your regions past todays new release posted on OSgrid.org website. This is the last working version prior to the Refactoring, of which no one should attempt to go beyond at this point. Be aware that if you upgrade, there is no easy downgrading and you will find yourself rebuilding your sims from backups, or if your were not wise enough to do backups, starting over from scratch to get it back on OSgrid. So please, PLEASE! always do backups before upgrading, but in this case do not go past the revision posted on the website until we announce it is safe to do so.

In terms of the refactoring process, we have begun testing on a small test grid that is not currently accessible to the public, but the Administrators are doing their best to iron out the many kinks that have come from such drastic changes to the core software code. We ask everyone please be patient, and if you have the time help the developers to debug issues with the new grid software. If you are able we need people to setup their own mini test grids locally and see what kind of bugs you can shake loose. We have a long road ahead until we can actually pull the trigger for OSgrid and move on, but until then please be patient and if you have any questions or would like to become more involved, just visit our IRC chat rooms or the web chat on the main website (irc.freenode.net – #osgrid – #opensim – #opensim-dev). Thanks everyone and keep checking back for more details soon.

Nebadon Izumi

Mar

The BIG Refactor..

By OSGrid 4 Comments

Categories: Disruptions & Downtime, Frontpage and Uncategorized

Hello everyone,

I wanted to give everyone one some notice on the upcoming server refactoring everyone has been hearing about. According to Melanie and Diva, the coding is complete on their server changes. This means several things for OSgrid, not all of which i will discuss right now, we are currently formulating plans on how to proceed forward. We ask that you all bear with us while we do some testing behind the scenes to prepare for all of these changes, some are drastic, some you wont even notice at all. Likely in the coming weeks you will see changes to the website and the simulator software, but we will do our best to help everyone prepare and step through it.

That is about all i can say for right now, but in the mean time its best to not update past the current OSgrid release version, or anything you are currently running today prior to GIT REV a9580ebb496637323548b75c2bda605790b18a6b (r/12335) as this version is the no longer compatible with OSgrid until we can complete the back end updates.

If you have any questions you can visit our web chat or IRC channel at irc.freenode.net #osgrid

~Nebadon Izumi

Jan

Asset server migration this Saturday/Sunday

By OSGrid 4 Comments

Categories: Disruptions & Downtime, Frontpage and Uncategorized

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EDIT: This maintenance was successfully completed. –coyled
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Hello. As Adam mentioned a couple of posts ago, thanks to generous user donations OSGrid has a shiny new asset server ready to go into service. This will bring our asset storage capacity from 1TB to 3.5TB, and decrease the grid’s recurring monthly operational costs.

Most of the assets have already been sync’d to the new machine, but we’ll have to take the asset server offline to do one final sync before flipping the switch. This maintenance window is now scheduled for:

You can also go to http://tr.im/KwqN and convert that time into your local time zone.

All other grid services will remain up during this time, though the user experience will be degraded as sims will be unable to upload or retrieve uncached assets. After the conclusion of the maintenance, it’s recommended that region operators restart their regions.

Further status information will be posted to http://twitter.com/osgrid

No configuration change is required on your end.

Apologies for the inconvenience, thank you for your patience during this upgrade, and thanks for using OSGrid.

-coyled

Jan

**GRID ONLINE: THE BIG “SNAFU” take 2..

By OSGrid 9 Comments

Categories: Disruptions & Downtime, Frontpage and Uncategorized

First i want to apologize to everyone for todays and this weeks downtimes and Inventory issues, it appears that time has caught up with us here at OSgrid. After 2.5 years of virtually no cleanup or maintenance on our inventory tables, it seems the cruft just finally built up to much.

Todays downtime was a result of much of that build up bringing things to a grinding halt, so after all this time the big clean up finally took place. Thanks to Melanie and her awesome ability to peer into the database and see what was wrong, spent the last few hours fixing and cleaning the entire table.

So please everyone thank Melanie Milland, and everyone who helped her and the rest of the team get through this ordeal, I would like to thank the grid admins and devs, including Adam Frisby, Hiro Protagonist, Adelle Fitzgerald and Dave Coyle as well for also helping and contributing to getting through this insanity. Thanks to WhiteStar Magic and others on the IRC and everyone who helped out on Lbsa Plaza, there are just too many to mention everyone, you are all great people and this grid could not function without any of you. (I am sorry if i forgot anyone its only because my brain is so scrambled right now .

Please log back into the grid and check your inventory and report anything that seems odd to our team. Thanks again everyone.

ok folks, sorry about take 2 on the outage but we realized after we opened the grid pretty quickly that something was still wrong, seemed people still had some duplicate folders, so Melanie once again plunged into the database to save the day, unfortunately the queries were massive and took much longer to process than we anticipated, we are sorry for this turn of events but it was ultimately necessary. Again i thank everyone for their patience in this matter and hopefully this is the last outage for a while.

Also if you find you are missing items from your root folder, be sure to check in your “Lost and Found” anything we could not properly place back should have ended up in your Lost and Found. if you have any questions please let us know.

Jan

**GRID OFFLINE: Inventory Server Troubles.

By OSGrid 1 Comment

Categories: Disruptions & Downtime and Uncategorized

Currently the grid is offline for some maintenance to the Inventory server, we took the grid offline to prevent any damage from occuring while we do some maintenance, please hang in there and check back soon for more updates.

Nov

Winterfest 2009

By OSGrid 2 Comments

Categories: Events, Frontpage and Uncategorized

Come join us this Sunday for a winter skating party! Free ice skates provided at the skate shack with “tricks” to wow your friends.
Relax in the cozy lodge or show us your stuff out on the frozen pond!
Also there are freebie gifts scattered about the sim. Go on a hunt for them and collect all 15.
Winterfest 2009 will be up and running through December with weekly events so check back for more info!

Region: southsea
Time: Starts 1400 UTC November 29th – open all December – events will be listed.

Contact Christy Lock inworld for more info. Or check http://www.gridfest.info

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