To perform some updates on our Confluence database, we will need to shut the service down for a short window this evening. Confluence will be unavailable from 17:00 CDT to about 17:15 CDT this evening. – CELS Systems

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 CST 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 2019-04-24 at 12:00 CDT 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 2019-04-24 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue …

I’ll post a full post mortem later, but the short story is the version of confluence we were running was vulnerable to various exploits, and required updating before we could bring it back online due to evidence some of those weaknesses were exploited. We see no evidence of data loss or exposure, but are continuing …

We’re making progress on getting the service back online. We’ve stood up the new server and are making sure the data is solid before migrating it onto it. I hope to have an ETA soon.

collab.cels.anl.gov (confluence server) is out of service until further notice. We will post updated to twitter (https://twitter.com/celssys) with updates, and will update this list when it’s back in service. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi, everybody! It hit me it’s been a shockingly long time since I’ve given a “State of IT” talk to the ALD. And we’ve got a lot I want to talk about, too. We’re on the cusp of some really cool stuff and it’s time that I got you all as excited as I am. …

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

We isolated the failure in the authentication system, and authentication started working by 9:45, at which point we started cleaning up the fallout. At this point, everything should be working as expected. Please report outstanding issues to [email protected]. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience.