CIS Maintenance weekend is the weekend after this coming one. I normally forward these announcements on to you, but I noticed some possible errors in the list of affected services, and I want to get some clarification from them on it. I’ll send a complete list when I have it, however based on the fact …

Some of you may be getting very obvious phishing notices saying your anl.gov mail account is over limit. ANL Cyber has been notified, and you can safely ignore and delete the message. Thanks, and happy new year!

In working with the ANL web team, we were finally able to locate the issue and correct it yesterday afternoon by around 5:20. A change made globally to www.anl.gov (which is where the main MCS website is hosted) to bring mobile support to the website and make some font changes had unexpected behavior on how …

Changes within the ANL webserver content seems to have broken the MCS website (hosted on their server). We’ve alerted CIS to the issue and are awaiting word on what happened and how to bring things back quickly.

This morning’s power work unexpectedly took out one of our file servers (for reasons we have yet to understand). We’re in the process of bringing it back. This affects most home directories for Unix.

Please see the below announcement from CIS. There will be no impact on CELS systems. WHAT ARE WE DOING? Argonne’s quarterly IT maintenance weekend is scheduled for Friday, Dec 4th, thru Sunday, Dec 6th. We are patching and upgrading our major application databases (Oracle, SQL, and MySQL) during the maintenance weekend. In addition, maintenance to …

This has just been received from CIS: Email service should be restored to those whom were affected by the downed database. Search functionality will be restored hopefully by tomorrow morning once all the background processes have completed. Should you have any further issues with your mail, please send mail to [email protected]. From: <cels-systems-announce-bounces> on behalf …

CIS has confirmed that they are having issues with a mail server. Only some Users seem to be affected by this issue. More to come as we receive updates.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been having issues with the fileserver that hosts a number of project directories. We’re working on migrating the data to a new fileserver, as our attempts to get the old one stable have not been fruitful. We’re compiling the list of affected filesystems, but the short term answer is …