--- 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) ## 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...