This afternoon we became aware of a problem with xgitlab.cels.anl.gov where some repositories were missing their files. After extensive digging and troubleshooting, we’ve determined the best course of action is to roll back to the state of things prior to the upgrade. If you made any commits or changes after Saturday’s maintenance, you will need …

The scheduled maintenance is now complete.

Please see initial announcement here. The schedule for the outages will be: Friday, June 18 5:00PM – xgitlab.cels.anl.gov and gitlab.cels.anl.gov go into maintenance mode. Saturday, June 19 10:00AM – maintenance on confluence.cels.anl.gov and jira.cels.anl.gov begins. Noon – maintenance on git.cels.anl.gov begins. Noon – various login, compute, home, and workstation nodes will reboot throughout the day to …

The lab’s license for the Thunderbird extension “OWL” expired and has not been renewed since Thunderbird has native Modern Auth (Oauth2) support now.  Please see https://virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/docs/web-and-mail/configuring-thunderbird-for-mfa/ for instructions on how to configure Thunderbird.

Hi, everyone. Hope your summer has started out well and you’re enjoying the 90 degree weather and the humidity. Mmmm… swampy. Anyway, I wanted to make you all aware of an upcoming maintenance weekend. During the weekend of Friday, June 18 to Sunday, June 20, we need to take various components of the infrastructure offline …

Hi, everybody.  I was originally going to send this as a more targeted email to users who I know were affected by this issue, but it turns out the scope is broader than that.  But it’s also a nice opportunity to remind everyone to make sure their info is up to date and what they …

In going over the upgrade process, we found we were kicking a particular can down the road and would run into the need to have another outage to get us where we need to be. So rather than prolong the inevitable, we’ve come up with a new process wherein all the servers will be updated …

The legacy gitlab servers are still operational and in need of updates.  We have two git servers in Legacy: gitlab.cels.anl.gov which is internal only (no access from outside Argonne) xgitlab.cels.anl.gov which is the one most of you are using. We will be taking down gitlab.cels.anl.gov on Thursday morning at 9AM to get it up to …

The previous announcement on this can be read here. Some quick notes: As long as you have a GCE account, you can ssh to Legacy MCS login and compute nodes through GCE. If you don’t have a GCE account (why not?) you can ssh to Legacy MCS login and compute nodes via VPN, auth wifi, …

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 …