A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 7/27/2020 5pm in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 7/27/20 7pm, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue inconvenience please let us know, …

At 5PM this evening, the Windows terminal server at windows.cels.anl.gov will have critical security patches applied. The computer will be rebooted as part of this and will be unavailable briefly. Please make sure you save any work. Thanks, and sorry for any inconvenience.

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 …

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 …