cgspace-notes/content/posts/2020-05.md

---
title: "May, 2020"
date: 2020-05-02T09:52:04+03:00
author: "Alan Orth"
categories: ["Notes"]
---

## 2020-05-02

- Peter said that CTA is having problems submitting an item to CGSpace
  - Looking at the PostgreSQL stats it seems to be the same issue that Tezira was having last week, as I see the number of connections in 'idle in transaction' and 'waiting for lock' state are increasing again
  - I see that CGSpace (linode18) is still using PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.11, and there were some bugs related to transactions fixed in 42.2.12 (which I had updated in the Ansible playbooks, but not deployed yet)

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## 2020-05-03

- Purge a few remaining bots from CGSpace Solr statistics that I had identified a few months ago
  - `lua-resty-http/0.10 (Lua) ngx_lua/10000`
  - `omgili/0.5 +http://omgili.com`
  - `IZaBEE/IZaBEE-1.01 (Buzzing Abound The Web; https://izabee.com; info at izabee dot com)`
  - `Twurly v1.1 (https://twurly.org)`
  - `Pattern/2.6 +http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern`
  - `CyotekWebCopy/1.7 CyotekHTTP/2.0`
- This is only about 2,500 hits total from the last ten years, and half of these bots no longer seem to exist, so I won't bother submitting them to the COUNTER-Robots project
- I noticed that our custom themes were incorrectly linking to the OpenSearch XML file
  - The bug [was fixed](https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/DS-2592) for Mirage2 in 2015
  - Note that this did not prevent OpenSearch itself from working
  - I will patch this on our DSpace 5.x and 6.x branches

## 2020-05-06

- Atmire responded asking for more information about the Solr statistics processing bug in CUA so I sent them some full logs
  - Also I asked again about the Maven variable interpolation issue for `cua.version.number`, and if they would be willing to upgrade CUA to use Font Awesome 5 instead of 4.

## 2020-05-07

- Linode sent an alert that there was high CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) early this morning
  - I looked at the nginx logs using goaccess and I found a few IPs making lots of requests around then:

```
# cat /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "07/May/2020:(01|03|04)" | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED -
```

- The two main IPs making requests around then are 188.134.31.88 and 212.34.8.188
  - The first is in Russia and it is hitting mostly XMLUI Discover links using _dozens_ of different user agents, a total of 20,000 requests this week
  - The second IP is CodeObia testing AReS, a total of 171,000 hits this month
  - I will purge both of those IPs from the Solr stats using my `check-spider-ip-hits.sh` script:

```
$ ./check-spider-ip-hits.sh -f /tmp/ips -s statistics -p
Purging 171641 hits from 212.34.8.188 in statistics
Purging 20691 hits from 188.134.31.88 in statistics

Total number of bot hits purged: 192332
```

- And then I will add 188.134.31.88 to the nginx bad bot list and tell CodeObia to please use a "bot" user agent
- I also changed the nginx config to block requests with blank user agents

## 2020-05-11

- Bizu said she was having issues submitting to CGSpace last week
  - The issue sounds like the one Tezira and CTA were having in the last few weeks
  - I looked at the PostgreSQL graphs and see there are a lot of connections in "idle in transaction" and "waiting for lock" state:

![PostgreSQL connections](/cgspace-notes/2020/05/postgres_connections_cgspace-week.png)

- I think I'll downgrade the PostgreSQL JDBC driver from 42.2.12 to 42.2.10, which was the version we were using before these issues started happening
- Atmire sent some feedback about my ongoing issues with their CUA module, but none of it was conclusive yet
  - Regarding Font Awesome 5 they will check how much work it will take and give me a quote
- Abenet said some users are questioning why the statistics dropped so much lately, so I made a [post to Yammer](https://www.yammer.com/dspacedevelopers/#/Threads/show?threadId=674923030216704) to explain about the robots
- Last week Peter had asked me to add a new ILRI author's ORCID iD
  - I added it to the controlled vocabulary and tagged the user's existing ~11 items in CGSpace using this CSV file with my `add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py` script:

```
$ cat 2020-05-11-add-orcids.csv
dc.contributor.author,cg.creator.id
"Lutakome, P.","Pius Lutakome: 0000-0002-0804-2649"
"Lutakome, Pius","Pius Lutakome: 0000-0002-0804-2649"
$ ./add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py -i 2020-05-11-add-orcids.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -d
```

- Run system updates on CGSpace (linode18) and reboot it
  - I had to restart Tomcat five times before all Solr statistics cores came up OK, ugh.

## 2020-05-12

- Peter noticed that CGSpace is no longer on AReS, because I blocked all requests that don't specify a user agent
  - I've temporarily disabled that restriction and asked Moayad to look into how he can specify a user agent in the AReS harvester

## 2020-05-13

- Atmire responded about Font Awesome and said they can switch to version 5 for 16 credits
  - I told them to go ahead
- Also, Atmire gave me a small workaround for the `cua.version.number` interpolation issue and said they would look into the crash that happens when processing our Solr stats
- Run system updates and reboot AReS server (linode20) for the first time in almost 100 days
  - I notice that AReS now has some of CGSpace's data in it (but not all) since I dropped the user-agent restriction on the REST API yesterday

## 2020-05-17

- Create an issue in the OpenRXV project for Moayad to change the default harvester user agent ([#36](https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/36))

## 2020-05-18

- Atmire responded and said they still can't figure out the CUA statistics issue, though they seem to only be trying to understand what's going on using static analysis
  - I told them that they should try to run the code with the Solr statistics that I shared with them a few weeks ago

## 2020-05-19

- Add ORCID identifier for Sirak Bahta
  - I added it to the controlled vocabulary and tagged the user's existing ~40 items in CGSpace using this CSV file with my `add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py` script:

```
$ cat 2020-05-19-add-orcids.csv
dc.contributor.author,cg.creator.id
"Bahta, Sirak T.","Sirak Bahta: 0000-0002-5728-2489"
$ ./add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py -i 2020-05-19-add-orcids.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -d
```

- An IITA user is having issues submitting to CGSpace and I see there are a rising number of PostgreSQL connections waiting in transaction and in lock:

![PostgreSQL connections](/cgspace-notes/2020/05/postgres_connections_cgspace-week2.png)

- This is the same issue Tezira, Bizu, and CTA were having in the last few weeks and it I already downgraded the PostgreSQL JDBC driver version to the last version I was using before this started (42.2.10)
  - I will downgrade it to version 42.2.9 for now...
  - The only other thing I can think of is that I upgraded Tomcat to 7.0.103 in March
- Run system updates on DSpace Test (linode26) and reboot it
- Run system updates on CGSpace (linode18) and reboot it
  - After the system came back up I had to restart Tomcat 7 three times before all the Solr statistics cores came up OK
- Send Atmire a snapshot of the CGSpace database for them to possibly troubleshoot the CUA issue with DSpace 6

## 2020-05-20

- Send CodeObia some logos and footer text for the next phase of OpenRXV development ([#18](https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV/issues/18))

## 2020-05-25

- Add ORCID identifier for CIAT author Manuel Francisco
  - I added it to the controlled vocabulary and tagged the user's existing ~27 items in CGSpace using this CSV file with my `add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py` script:

```
$ cat 2020-05-25-add-orcids.csv
dc.contributor.author,cg.creator.id
"Díaz, Manuel F.","Manuel Francisco Diaz Baca: 0000-0001-8996-5092"
"Díaz, Manuel Francisco","Manuel Francisco Diaz Baca: 0000-0001-8996-5092"
$ ./add-orcid-identifiers-csv.py -i 2020-05-25-add-orcids.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -d
```

- Last week Maria asked again about searching for items by accession or issue date
  - A few months ago I had told her to search for the ISO8601 date in Discovery search, which appears to work because it filters the results down quite a bit
  - She pointed out that the results include hits that don't exactly match, for example if part of the search string appears elsewhere like in the timestamp
  - I checked in Solr and the results are the same, so perhaps it's a limitation in Solr...?
  - So this effectively means that we don't have a way to create reports for items in an arbitrary date range shorter than a year:
    - DSpace advanced search is buggy or simply not designed to work like that
    - AReS Explorer currently only allows filtering by year, but will allow months soon
    - Atmire Listings and Reports only allows a "Timespan" of a year

## 2020-05-29

- Linode alerted to say that the CPU load on CGSpace (linode18) was high for a few hours this morning
  - Looking at the nginx logs for this morning with goaccess:

```
# cat /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "29/May/2020:(02|03|04|05)" | goaccess --log-format=COMBINED -
```

- The top is 172.104.229.92, which is the AReS harvester (still not using a user agent, but it's tagged as a bot in the nginx mapping)
- Second is 188.134.31.88, which is a Russian host that we also saw in the last few weeks, using a browser user agent and hitting the XMLUI (but it is tagged as a bot in nginx as well)
- Another one is 51.158.106.4, which is some Scaleway IP making requests to XMLUI with different browser user agents that I am pretty sure I have seen before but never blocked
  - According to Solr it has made about 800 requests this year, but still... it's a bot.
- One I don't think I've seen before is 95.217.58.146, which is making requests to XMLUI with a Drupal user agent
  - According to [viewdns.info](https://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=95.217.58.146&t=1) it belongs to [landvoc.org](https://landvoc.org/)
  - I should add Drupal to the list of bots...
- Atmire got back to me about the [Solr CUA issue in the DSpace 6 upgrade](https://tracker.atmire.com/tickets-cgiar-ilri/view-ticket?id=706) and they cannot reproduce the error
  - The next step is for me to migrate DSpace Test (linode26) to DSpace 6 and try to reproduce the error there

## 2020-05-31

- Start preparing to migrate DSpace Test (linode26) to the `6_x-dev-atmire-modules` branch
  - Run all system updates and reboot
  - For now I will disable all yearly Solr statistics cores except the current `statistics` one
  - Prepare PostgreSQL with a clean snapshot of CGSpace's DSpace 5.8 database:

```
$ sudo su - postgres
$ dropdb dspacetest
$ createdb -O dspacetest --encoding=UNICODE dspacetest
$ psql dspacetest -c 'alter user dspacetest superuser;'
$ pg_restore -d dspacetest -O --role=dspacetest /tmp/cgspace_2020-05-31.backup
$ psql dspacetest -c 'alter user dspacetest nosuperuser;'
# run DSpace 5 version of update-sequences.sql!!!
$ psql -f /home/dspace/src/git/DSpace/dspace/etc/postgres/update-sequences.sql dspacetest
$ psql dspacetest -c "DELETE FROM schema_version WHERE version IN ('5.8.2015.12.03.3');"
$ psql dspacetest -c 'CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;'
$ exit
```

- Now switch to the DSpace 6.x branch and start a build:

```
$ chrt -i 0 ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 mvn -U -Dmirage2.on=true -Dmirage2.deps.included=false package
...
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project additions: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.dspace.modules:additions:jar:6.3: Failed to collect dependencies at com.atmire:atmire-listings-and-reports-api:jar:6.x-2.10.8-0-SNAPSHOT: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.atmire:atmire-listings-and-reports-api:jar:6.x-2.10.8-0-SNAPSHOT: Could not transfer artifact com.atmire:atmire-listings-and-reports-api:pom:6.x-2.10.8-0-SNAPSHOT from/to atmire.com-snapshots (https://atmire.com/artifactory/atmire.com-snapshots): Not authorized , ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. -> [Help 1]
```

- Great! I will have to send Atmire a note about this... but for now I can sync over my local `~/.m2` directory and the build completes
- After the Maven build completed successfully I installed the updated code with Ant (make sure to delete the old spring directory):

```
$ cd dspace/target/dspace-installer
$ rm -rf /blah/dspacetest/config/spring
$ ant update
```

- Database migrations take 10:18.287s during the first startup...
  - perhaps when we do the production CGSpace migration I can do this in advance and tell users not to make any submissions?
- I had a mistake in my Solr internal URL parameter so DSpace couldn't find it, but once I fixed that DSpace starts up OK!
- Once the initial Discovery reindexing is completed I started the Solr statistics UUID migration:

```
$ export JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
```

- Experiment a bit with the Python [country-converter](https://pypi.org/project/country-converter/) library as it can convert between different formats (like ISO 3166 and UN m49)
  - We need to eventually find a format we can use for all CGIAR DSpaces...

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