A noted previously, data center construction requires the room to be without power to the computing floor most of the day on Monday, October 19. For CELS General Computing Environment and MCS Legacy environment, all workstations, fileservers, and login nodes will be offline beginning at 9PM on Sunday, October 18. Once we receive the all …

Due to the construction in the data center linking the expansion into the rest of the building, the power to the room will be interrupted for most of the day on Monday, October 19. The exact timing of what will be turned off when is being worked out and we will send another announcement once …

Hey, everyone. I wanted to drop a quick note to let you know about new features on inside.cels.anl.gov that you should be aware of. 1. CELS Mailing and Announcement List Finder: There’s often a lot of confusion about who will get what announcement. When you choose poorly, you can either inadvertently spam a bunch of …

All, Confluence (collab.cels.anl.gov) will be unavailable on Saturday, 8/29/20 from 10AM CDT to 5PM CDT due to maintenance. There is a chance the service returns before 5PM. We will post an all-clear on the blog (virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/blog/) when work is finished. If this inconveniences you in some way, send a ticket to [email protected]. Tim Livolsi

There will be periodic outages as the previously announced work on the border routers is being performed.

Our file server that serves the legacy environment suffered a failed disk this morning. This is usually non-fatal and the disk in question was swapped and the filesystems began their repair. This also usually goes without incident. At approximately 3:30, an NFS issue appeared almost immediately after the RAID system reported clean, and various servers …

The file server serving these machines crashed. We’re bringing it back online, but it’s a slow process. We’ll send an update when we know more about an ETA (or when it’s back).

We are investigating the cause and working on a fix. Logins, workstations, and compute in the legacy environment are all affected.