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MCS login nodes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

MCS compute nodes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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. …

MCS login nodes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 time, in order. Only one login node should be down at any given time. Brad

(Not yet) Retiring webvpn service

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

Systems Announce compute001 down time.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

compute001 down time.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

Retiring webvpn service

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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Upcoming Office365 Migrations

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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File Server online

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

File services still offline

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

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