We are currently experiencing some unexpected issues with the GitLab service at xgitlab.cels.anl.gov We are looking into the issue and working to get service restored as quickly as possible. While we are working on this, xgitlab-old.cels.anl.gov should be available shortly to provide read-only access to your projects. Please use this only as a temporary measure; …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been scheduled for 2017-05-07 from 13:00 until 16:00 to migrate the services to new servers. During the maintenance window, both gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be inaccessible via the web interface. Users will still be able to clone, pull and fetch from a git repository, but write access …

The server is back up and seems to be running cleanly. We have not resolved the issue that has been hanging the system, but we should now be able to get reasonable logs to help us diagnose it. Thank you again for your patience.

We must reboot the main MCS/CELS file server known as sto10.mcs.anl.gov at 5PM today. We again experienced an unexpected outage on our main file server over the weekend, which took out or workstation and compute node infrastructure. We have configured additional debug logging that should help in the event this happens again. We anticipate the …

Greetings, The reboot was completed successfully. We encountered only minor, and not unexpected, configuration issues. We expect that the system will remain stable, we’ve added some additional monitoring to the configuration. You may need to reboot your linux workstation. If you notice anything important out of order (after you reboot) please let us know immediately. …

Greetings, We have to reboot the main MCS/CELS file server known as sto10.mcs.anl.gov at Noon today. We have experienced a number of unexpected outages on our main file server over the last week, which take out or workstation and compute node infrastructure. We took the opportunity at the recent power outage to upgrade the system …

If you currently access Dayforce via http://dash.anl.gov, you can ignore this note, it doesn’t affect you in any way. If you currently access Dayforce via Remote Desktop to rdp.mcs.anl.gov, we’ve had to make a small change. The latest version of Firefox breaks Silverlight, which is required for Dayforce. The global desktop shortcut to Dayforce on …

If you notice anything out of the ordinary, please report it to us at [email protected]. Thanks for your patience.

See https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/reminder-data-center-and-systems-outage-monday-march-6-2017/ for details. Systems are starting to come down now in anticipation of the 9AM outage. Follow the twitter feed for updates. We’re also fighting an unrelated issue taking out some services including collab.cels.anl.gov. Work on that is proceeding and we hope to have things back shortly.

This is a reminder of my previous announcement regarding Monday’s outage (see https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/data-center-and-systems-outage-monday-march-6-2017/) There is one change worth noting from the initial announcement.  Wired desktop networks for CELS, MCS, and ALCF will also be down during this outage.  Linux desktops in 240 were already going to go down due to the back-end infrastructure going down, …