Due to the construction in the data center related to the Aurora project, the power to building 240 (including the data center) will be interrupted for most of the day on Monday, July 19. For CELS Computing, this will affect the various computing clusters in the room (you should get a separate communication on those), …

The migration has been completed at this time. – brad

We believe we have figured out the issue with the failed xgitlab migration from a couple of weeks ago and are going to do it again this weekend. We’ve got checks in place to detect if the same thing happens again, though we don’t suspect this will happen. xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable from noon CDT …

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 …