I apologize for the wordy nature of this notice, and the dry tone.  I try to dress these things up and make them a more entertaining read, but there’s a lot of information to convey and I don’t want any of it to get lost.  Hang out until the end for a fun joke to …

Hi, everybody! We’ve got a bundle of announcements coming in the next few weeks, and I want to try to keep this systems-announce list low traffic, reserved for important announcements that affect all of our users such as downtimes and other critical information. We already have a blog and twitter (linked at the bottom of …

The previously announced Data Center outage (https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/building-240-data-center-outage-5pm-sep-6-sep-9/) is complete.  At this point we’ve got the MCS/CELS Linux environment powered back up and operational. The BIO environment was back by 1:30 thanks to early availability of power in that part of the data center. Systems administrators of other more targeted systems will announce when they …

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 13:00 CT and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2019-08-27 at 12:00 CT in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue inconvenience …

The building 240 Data Center cooling outage is set for Saturday, September 7 through Monday, September 9, inclusive. The expectation is that the work will be complete on Sunday, September 8, but we have to allow a day as a contingency. The building’s water-cooling system was taken down just prior to the construction of 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 13:00 CT and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

Hi, folks. I’m going to keep this short and sweet, with the critical bits up front, and explanations to follow for those interested. 1) CELS Employees can now request a LinkedIn Learning account. See https://virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/docs/cloud-and-external-services-provided-by-cels/linkedin-learning/ for details. 2) The previously announced data center outage now looks to be set for September 7 through September 9. …