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Maintenance window for GitLab services, Today 12:00 – 13:00 CST

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for Today from 12:00 to 13:00 CST, 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 CST today, and may be available sooner than that. If this window …

FYI: Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen Recall

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2018/Lenovo-Recalls-ThinkPad-Laptops-Due-to-Fire-Hazard

Copier installation for building 240 tomorrow (2/7/18)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Just a reminder the CELS copiers in Building 240 are being replaced tomorrow (except pr-5168, which was done this morning). Testing shows it should be painless. We’ve updated our documentation here: https://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/IT/index.php/Printers Expectation is linux desktops shouldn’t notice the change. Mac users may need to install the updated driver, but many did that when upgrading …

Replacement of Canon Printers in CELS

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, folks. Please see the note below from BIS on the plan to replace the canon printer/copiers in BIO, EVS, MCS, ALCF, and CELS. BIO and EVS are happening on Monday, and are supported by BIS. Also on Monday, we’re having the CELS printer on the 5th floor so we can get a handle on …

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Update: BIO File server UP (Z Drive, Y Drive)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The restores completed, we put the last pieces into place this morning. My testing shows workstations should be able to mount from the new file server . If you logout/login again or manually mount your file shares, they should work as expected. Please report any issues to [email protected]. Thanks! — Craig

Update: BIO File server down (Z Drive, Y Drive)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The restore stopped overnight (due to the windows host it was running on applying updates and rebooting), so we lost about 8 hours of restore time. Right now, we’re at about 800GB left to restore (2.59TB out of 3.39TB total). When the restores are running, we’re achieving roughly 28 MB/sec (or, 100GB an hour). In …

STARTING: Maintenance window: GitLab services

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.

Maintenance window: GitLab services Today 12:00 – 13:00 CST

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for Today from 12:00 to 13:00 CST 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 CST, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses …

Update: BIO File server down (Z Drive, Y Drive)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The restore on this new CELS-hosted hardware is going *much* faster. In fact, it was halfway done before the rebuilt storage mentioned last night was ready to go. As such, we won’t be pursuing that course as it would only slow down the other efforts. We anticipate full data recovery tomorrow morning. We’re working out …

BIO File server down (Z Drive, Y Drive)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The replacement disk array we were hosting the restored data on on failed tonight. At this point, I don’t have any faith in the hardware in this infrastructure and we’re pursuing multiple paths. First, we’re attempting a parallel restore of the data to storage in the CELS infrastructure. The hope is that the performance of …

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