The mailing list server is having trouble right now – we’re actively working on bringing it back. Delivery to mailing lists in the following domains is delayed during this outage. We’ll send an update when we’ve isolated the problem. lists.alcf.anl.gov lists.anl-external.org lists.argobots.org lists.bio.anl.gov lists.bolt-omp.org lists.cels.anl.gov lists.chameleoncloud.org lists.cogkit.org lists.earthmicrobiome.org lists.extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov lists.globusonline.org lists.globus.org lists.igsb.anl.gov lists.jlse.anl.gov lists.kbase.us lists.lcrc.anl.gov …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2017-08-30 from 12:00 until 13:00 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 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses …

Please see the following announcement from BIS: Beginning on Friday, July 28, selective Mac device users began reporting issues in regards to using Mac Mail. New emails were not being received into their Inbox, but they are able to send new mail and read existing messages already in their Mac Mail client. Also, emails did …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for Thursday 2017-07-27 from 12:00 to 13:00 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 13:00 CDT, and may be available sooner than that. If this window …

Greetings, All services should be back online, if you experience any trouble with your linux workstation please reboot it. If you are still experiencing any trouble please contact the CELS Help Desk in the morning. Thank you for your patience.

Reminder: Tonight, July 11, 2017 at a little after 5 PM we will be taking our main home directory file server offline so that we can replace the system board. We expect the outage to last about 2 hours. Which users will this effect? Anyone using the NFS file services in the CELS/MCS environment. If …

Due to a combination of illness and vacations, we won’t have someone physically at the CELS help desk this week (or at least the first today, we’ll see as the week goes on). Please send e-mail for problems you may have. If you have issues with using e-mail or other Argonne-provided services (dayforce, workday, ANL …

We were building the replacement disk array overnight (it was still building when I got in this morning), and I decided to see if I couldn’t get the original array into a useful state. Lo and behold, it had become responsive again overnight, and was back online. I did a few tests, and all looks …

The disk array housing the Y and Z drives appears to have failed in a catastrophic way. We’re reconfiguring an unused array tonight and will start to restore files from tape backup tomorrow. Once the restore starts, we should be able to provide an ETA.

All servers but one (BIOWINFS, the file server for Y and Z drives) are back. The storage array for BIOWINFS is in a bad state. We’re still trying to bring it back. No ETA yet. If we can’t get it back, we will need to restore from tape backups to new storage. I will post …