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STARTING: GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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

Maintenance window for GitLab services 2019-04-24 12:00 CDT

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

collab.cels.anl.gov back online

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

collab update

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 outage

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

State of CELS IT Talk, May 8, 2PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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. …

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STARTING: GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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

Authentication issues resolved

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

Authentication problems rectified.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We believe we’ve got the authentication issues rectified. Will send an email to systems-announce when we’re sure.

Maintenance window for GitLab services; Tuesday 2019-03-26 12:00 CDT

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2019-03-26 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 2019-03-26 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue …

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