As a followup to the announcement I sent earlier, and after forwarding on the feedback I received (as did the others in the lab), we got a great response from BIS on this. I’ll just quote it verbatim, because it made me smile. This comes from Dave Salbego. You guys have forwarded some very informative …

Compute001 is back up. The faulty memory has been replaced, and the memory errors appear to have stopped. You may now resume use of the system. We will continue to monitor the system for the next few days. CELS Systems IT. From: <[email protected]> on behalf of "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at …

We will be taking compute001 down today (June 7th 2017) at 5PM CST to replace some memory that has caused the machine to lock up a few times. Down time should be about 1 hour. We will send an all clear once service has been fully restored. CELS Systems IT.

The web-based VPN service run by BIS (https://vpn.anl.gov) has reached end of life, and BIS (the former CIS) would like to retire it. Before they do, they want to be sure it’s not a critical part of your work that we can’t find another solution for. First up, this is not getting rid of VPN …

Hi, folks! I’m including the very official welcome message from BIS on this below, but I wanted to be the first to fill you in on what’s happening. BIS will be working with you all to migrate your mailbox from on-premise Exchange service (running Exchange 2010) to Microsoft-hosted Office 365. I’ve been on this setup …

Greetings, and good morning. The file server is online and fully operational. The server experienced a major hardware system failure. We managed in the end to salvage a mother board from a decommissioned server that was in the excess pile, a server’s death row. A last minute reprieve from the guvnuh, as it were. This …

The maintenance announced for 5PM has not been going as planned. The file server is still offline, and we’re working on it. While this is down, login and other unix services are still offline. No ETA at this time.

Greetings, We must reboot the main MCS/CELS file server known as sto10.mcs.anl.gov at 5PM today, May 22nd. We anticipate the outage to last no more than one hour. During this time logins to the login machines and workstations will not be possible and access to most project directories will be offline. You may need to …

The updates have been applied. Thanks for your patience.

To apply important security patches to the file server, we’ll need to do a reboot of the services today. These are scheduled to begin at 5PM and will take approximately two hours. I’m hoping it will be shorter than that, but these can sometimes take a few reboots to get every patch available. During this …