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.

All maintenance activities from CELS Systems have been completed. The next CELS maintenance weekend is scheduled for the last weekend in October, we will send announcements as we approach as to which systems will be affected. The BIS maintenance weekend is next week (Aug 21-23). For issues related to this outage, please contact the BIS …

Hey everyone. In building the General Compute Environment (GCE), one of the tenets we held to is keeping it up to date and secure. Part of accomplishing this necessitates some outage windows to apply needed patches and updates in cases where we do not have a method for doing them live. We are planning to …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 8/11/20 5PM in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 8/11/20 6PM, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue inconvenience please let us know, …

On Friday, August 7 at 5PM, we will be performing an urgent security update on jira.cels.anl.gov. During this time, the service will be unavailable. We expect it will be available again by 8PM. Please let us know via [email protected] if this causes an insurmountable hardship and we will reschedule. Thank you.