Hi, everyone! It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these proper updates on current services and upcoming changes, and there’s a fair bit to unpack, so I’m going to take a slightly different approach to make sure the relevant info is front-loaded and you can read on for more details and musings …

The computers running login.mcs.anl.gov (the Legacy MCS login nodes) are running an OS that will reach end of life at the end of the month. As such, we’ll be turning off the ability to SSH from offsite on Monday, May 17, 2021. This will not affect SSH from on-site or via VPN. You can continue …

Hi, everyone. I’m in the process of writing a bigger update and newsletter, but wanted to announce this separately since it’s significant and shouldn’t wait until I wordsmith the newsletter into existence. We have a new confluence server! confluence.cels.anl.gov is up in GCE and ready for your use.  It uses your GCE/Argonne account (unlike the …

In preparation for an update to the existing Jenkins server at jenkins.cels.anl.gov we need to run a full backup. While this backup runs, new jobs will sit in the queue and will not be processed. They will run when the backup is complete. We’re starting the backup at 5PM tomorrow (Friday, April 9). We hope/expect …

The CELS Jira service (jira.cels.anl.gov) will be unavailable this evening (2/24) due to emergency maintenance starting at 5:00 PM CST until 7:00PM CST.

Things went generally as planned. We’ve got a few loose ends and testing we’re tying up, but none of it should have an impact on you. If you notice anything out of sorts, please send a note to [email protected] and we’ll dig into it. Thanks!

Hi, everyone. Trying to keep the announcement emails to a minimum, so here’s a twofer. Maintenance Weekend Feb 19-21 As previously announced, we’ll be performing some disruptive maintenance this weekend, which means there are some aspects of the environment that will be unavailable for various portions of the weekend. We’ve got other updates we are …

Hi, everyone, happy Friday! Hope you’re staying warm! First up, thanks to those who were able to attend the first GCE Town Hall this afternoon. You’ll find the slides and recording at anl.box.com/v/StaceTalksANL in the 2021 directory. The next Town Hall is Tuesday, Feb 9 at 3PM. See virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/2021/01/20/weekly-cels-systems-town-halls/ for more info and joining details. …

Please see the below announcement from BIS. WHAT ARE WE DOING? BIS is asking anyone who uses Thunderbird as their default mail client to setup their account with native OAuth2 instead of OWL. WHY ARE WE DOING IT? The official end date for the OWL plugin is 03/06/21. The newest versions of Thunderbird now natively …

Sorry about this. In a master stroke of timing, my network has been up and down all morning, and my backup network isn’t resilient enough to host a bluejeans session through. We’ll pick up next week, Feb 5 at 2PM.