Add notes for 2021-11-22

content/posts/2021-11.md

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   - Run all system updates and reboot the server
   - Start a full harvest, but I notice that the number of items being harvested is not complete, so I stopped it
 - Run all system updates on CGSpace (linode18) and DSpace Test (linode26) and reboot them
+- ICT finally got back to use about the passwords for SMTP so I updated that and tested it to make sure it's working
+- Some bot with IP 87.203.87.141 in Greece is making tons of requests to XMLUI with the user agent `Microsoft Internet Explorer`
+  - I added them to the list of IPs in nginx that get an HTTP 403 with a message to use a real user agent
+  - I will also purge all their requests from Solr:
+
+```console
+$ ./ilri/check-spider-ip-hits.sh -f /tmp/ips -p
+Purging 10893 hits from 87.203.87.141 in statistics
+
+Total number of bot hits purged: 10893
+```
+
+- I did a bit more work documenting and tweaking the PostgreSQL configuration for CGSpace and DSpace Test in the Ansible infrastructure playbooks
+  - I finally deployed the changes on both servers
+
+## 2021-11-22
+
+- Udana asked me about validating on OpenArchives again
+  - According to my notes we actually completed this in 2021-08, but for some reason we are no longer on the list and I can't validate again
+  - There seems to be a problem with their website because every link I try to validate says it received an HTTP 500 response from CGSpace
 
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