(Previous announcement here: https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/cels-systems-outage-june-17-19-2016/) Here’s an update on the state of things for the outage this Friday. Please read the above for context. Another reminder/announcement will be sent on Thursday. MCS/CELS/ALCF: Aside from what’s noted in the prior announcement, please note we will be turning off the Mac file servers on Thursday evening at close …

In order to apply some security patches to our gitlab servers, we’re going to have a brief outage on Wednesday afternoon (June 8) from noon to 12:30pm. During this time, the servers won’t be reachable, pushes and pulls will fail, etc. No data loss will occur, and everything will be back in operation within 30 …

As you may be aware by now, building 240 is undergoing a complete shutdown of power beginning in the morning of Friday, June 17, with an outage window extending into Sunday, June 19. We hope the outage will be shorter than that, but fully expect it will last until the evening of the 18th at …

On June 1, ANL Cyber will be implementing new rules on the outgoing web proxy (affects all hosts in BIO, and all hosts on wireless at ANL) that block traffic for outdated/vulnerable machines. This is not a new policy, just updating the rules to reflect currently supported versions. If CELS Systems is the administrator for …

Contact [email protected] if resoft or logout/login doesn’t work.

We’ve received notice regarding upcoming power work for building 240. Time frames have not been set, but this is something that will take out the entire building for a weekend, and many servers and services we provide. The current expectation is a weekend in June will be scheduled for the work. This work is to …

Hi, all. First of all, here’s a reminder about the user survey we’re conducting as announced in the last update. You can find the survey at the URL below, and it’s pretty quick. Should only take a few minutes to fill out. I’ll be closing the survey down at the end of the month. http://goo.gl/forms/RA60ciGfB3 …

Hi, folks. We’ve had a few changes in the group since the new year, and I’m overdue in letting you know about them. Let’s dive right in: Welcome BIO: At the end of January, BIO’s IT admin Rocky Patel left Argonne for another opportunity. With that, our group took on supporting the BIO division along …

Due to the weather, we’re going to be closing the CELS service desk at lunch today and work remotely for the rest of the day. That means no walk-ups and phone calls will go to Voice Mail. However we’ll be monitoring [email protected] and will be handling any issues we can remotely. Thanks!

Monday’s power work will not generally affect servers run by us. Systems Administrators of affected systems will notify their users directly, but the affected systems are Mira, Beagle, TRACC, and some portions of Magellan. The power outage in December took out much of the data center, but left most of the office side of the …