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 …

Power work in TCS has unexpectedly affected the servers hosted in TCS. We’ve restored power to the affected servers and disks and are in the process of recovering the machines. Will send an all-clear when this is complete. This affects the shared drives Y, Z, and linux fileservers. Any services not functioning as expected are …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2017-06-28 (Wednesday) 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, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses …

The scheduled reboot of the compute nodes has been completed. brad From: "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 12:14 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: MCS compute nodes We are planning to reboot the MCS compute nodes on June 23rd, starting at 9am CST, to apply updates. Servers will be rebooted in the …

The scheduled reboot of the login nodes is now complete. brad From: "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 9:36 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: MCS login nodes The MCS login nodes 1-4 will be rebooted this evening, June 22nd, at 5pm to apply updates. The logins will be rebooted one at a …

We are planning to reboot the MCS compute nodes on June 23rd, starting at 9am CST, to apply updates. Servers will be rebooted in the following order, one at a time. compute001.mcs.anl.gov thwomp.mcs.anl.gov stomp.mcs.anl.gov crush.mcs.anl.gov crank.mcs.anl.gov steamroller.mcs.anl.gov grind.mcs.anl.gov churn.mcs.anl.gov trounce.mcs.anl.gov thrash.mcs.anl.gov vanquish.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov octopus.mcs.anl.gov Only one compute node should be down at any given time. …