All systems that were affected are back in service. Two of our login severs also had unexpected outages, login1.mcs.anl.go and login2.mcs.anl.gov they are back online now as well. Thanks for your patience.

One of the systems involved in account management is unexpected down. We are investigating the issue. As far as I can ascertain this should only effect a users’ ability to make changes to their settings in accounts.mcs.anl.gov. logins to our systems seem to be unaffected. Please alert us at [email protected] if you have an issue …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for today 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 undue …

The wordpress upgrade announced yesterday was completed by 9, however, there were some wrinkles that we needed to iron out and service was fully stable by 9:30 this morning. Shortly thereafter our mailing list server had an issue that required a reboot. As such some mail to mailing lists will have been delayed. Service has …

A maintenance window has been scheduled to migrate WordPress sites to new hardware. The window scheduled is tomorrow morning (2017-09-20), from 08:00 to 09:00 CDT. The following sites will be temporarily off-line while we perform the migration: – anlpress.cels.anl.gov – argo-osr.org – blog.metagenomics.anl.gov – earthmicrobiome.org – escience-conference.org – esp.alcf.anl.gov – estrfi.cels.anl.gov – events.alcf.anl.gov – events.cels.anl.gov …

Please see the below proposed BIS Maintenance Weekends. If any of these weekends look to be particularly bad timing for your group, let me know before end of week. Most of these are tied to coincide with APS Maintenance periods. The scope of work for any of these is not set – this is just …

Mailing list service has been restored, mail is now flowing again. No mail to mailing lists should have been lost, simply delayed. Please report any issues to [email protected]. Thanks!

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 …