As part of us trying to make our hostnames make a little more sense, we’ve moved Jira from xjira.mcs.anl.gov to jira.cels.anl.gov (this aligns with the collab.cels.anl.gov). The old URL should redirect seamlessly. If you notice any issues, please report them to [email protected]. Thanks!

CIS is proposing the following dates for maintenance weekends. These weekends can typically involve some amount of unavailability for lab systems, including e-mail, networking, etc. They do not typically affect MCS/CELS systems, but they can if the outage is related to networking. At the moment, the following weekends are proposed. If you know of some …

We’ve been getting multiple reports of a phishing mail that came in last night with a subject of "Suspension Alert!". It’s obviously bogus, but best to just let everyone know not to click the "CLICK HERE" link. Your account isn’t going to be suspended. 🙂 Thanks to all who reported it.

Consider this a "mostly all clear" message. The work was completed, and we’ve got most systems up and running. There are a handful of systems giving us trouble at the moment (including some that didn’t go down during the outage, but started acting up when things came back), and we’re working on them. Those of …

I will send an all-clear when things are back to normal. Updates will be posted to our blog (http://mcssys.wordpress.com) and twitter (@mcssys). Thanks!

(See http://wp.me/p3jwfN-7G for the first announcement on this.) The important information is in the prior announcement, but I thought it might be helpful to enumerate the machines and services that are provided by CELS Systems that will remain available during the power outage. And, remember, almost all CIS-provided services (including e-mail) will be up. * …

What happened on Monday: Overnight/early morning of Monday, May 11, the system disk for the server "repo.anl-external.org" detected major corruption and marked itself as read-only. This was not a physical disk in a physical machine, but a virtual disk being used by the virtual machine running the repocafe service. The corruption was not hardware-related, but …

Please see the below announcement from CIS for maintenance work happening this coming weekend. Note the sporadic outages they expect, including e-mail, on Saturday morning and afternoon. WHAT ARE WE DOING? Argonne’s quarterly IT maintenance weekend is scheduled for Friday, May 15th, thru Sunday, May 17th. We are replacing key elements of our network infrastructure …

Please report any oddities you find, but we believe everything is back with no evidence of any data loss. I’ll post a full post mortem tomorrow.