Weekend maintenance activities complete for CELS. BIS Maintenance weekend next weekend.

All maintenance activities from CELS Systems have been completed. The next CELS maintenance weekend is scheduled for the last weekend in October, we will send announcements as we approach as to which systems will be affected.
The BIS maintenance weekend is next week (Aug 21-23). For issues related to this outage, please contact the BIS Service Desk at vector.anl.gov, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, or 630-252-9999.
At the moment, the list of activities for BIS next weekend include:
* Friday Aug 21st,
* User with pre-existing VPN/elevated privilege sessions (already logged into VPN before upgrade) on Friday, Aug 21st, before the Blackshield update starts will not be impacted. Users attempting to login into VPN after the change has started at 7:30PM may run into issues with the VPN connection. This would only impact any applications that were needed and required VPN to connect to them. Applications that do not require VPN to connect would continue to function during this time. * No direct application outage or Lab outage identified for Friday evening activities. * All networking activities have redundant configurations so no outage is expected but could possibly see brief interruptions at time as reboots are conducted.
* Saturday Aug 22nd, * Networking has redundant set up so it is not expected to cause any network impact or outage but could still see interruptions at times. * The Netapp upgrade, Oracle, and Solaris server patching change records will impact applications that have a call or rely on these servers during the updates. All BIS supported Lab applications can be impacted during this maintenance. * Sunday Aug 23rd , end 8:00 PM * Networking is doing wireless maintenance at the Lab throughout the day. * Information: – Wireless Network connectivity will be unavailable for the laboratory (Except: the APS Experimental Ring / LOM’s and Bldg. 450) for the extent of the maintenance window. If you are at the Lab, wired, hard wired, direct wired connections will not be impacted. Remote access will still be available.