The system that manages the legacy MCS accounts and JLSE accounts will have a brief downtime tonight as we perform maintenance on the server. Accounts and logins will work as normal, but you will be unable go access your account management page at accounts.mcs.anl.gov or accounts.jlse.anl.gov during the outage. This does not affect userbase3, which …

Hi, everyone! Hope you’re doing well and taking advantage of the increased opportunities to get outside, generate some vitamin D, and generally not stare at a computer screen. But for the time that you are in front of that screen (since they do pay us for it and all, plus it’s fulfilling), we need some …

Hi, everyone. Just a quick and simple note to inform you of two service outages coming up next week. On Monday, 5/18 we are performing a major upgrade to accounts.cels.anl.gov. This is providing some bug fixes, but is also bringing LCRC accounts into the fold. There’s a lot of data to import, so it’s going …

Hey, everyone. Hope you’re doing well out there. It’s weird being away from the office for so long, but I’m coping. The cats aren’t particularly into the daily status meetings, but I think they’ll adjust. Though I need to have a word with Frankbenberry – she’s just not putting her heart into it these days. …

Hi, everyone. Hope you’re staying healthy. In this new wonderful world of working from wherever we happened to be holed up, there’s a lot more teleconferencing going on. People are using the official Argonne apps, and some people are using others. Please bear in mind the following when choosing what you’re going to do and …

We are investigating an unplanned network outage to computers in the building 240 data center. See https://twitter.com/celssys for updates.

First of all, I owe you an apology. I was under this mistaken impression this would be communicated out via other channels, but I was mistaken. So now I’m announcing something that’s already happened, and I’m sorry about that. Effective today, rules were put in place on our Office365 services to prevent forwarding mail to …

Thanks to all who attended in person and virtually. Extra big thanks to Rob Denney from Cyber for fielding the questions I didn’t know the answer to. The slide deck and a recording can be found at https://anl.box.com/v/StaceTalksANL (ANL login required) in the 2020 folder. I edited out some of the dead spots in the …

Maintenance of our GitLab services has been completed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues by emailing [email protected] – CELS Systems

Beginning work to update our GitLab services at https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov and https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov Services will be disrupted during this maintenance window. Service is expected to be restored by 18:00 CT and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems