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.

We’re almost back, but have hit a snag with the database.  Hopefully, the next update I send will be a restore announcement.  Stand by.

As building 240 tenants know, there is major power work scheduled for June 1st that will take out power to the entire building. This, unfortunately, includes the data center in building 240, home to a number of computers. The administrators of specific systems (LCRC, Beagle, Magellan, etc.) will be notifying their users of what this …

Due to power work being performed in the data center the following computer servers were unexpectedly taken down and will remain down for the duration of the work which is expected to last approximately 3.5 hours: octopus.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov cg.mcs.anl.gov There was also a brief outage of login1 and login2.mcs.anl.gov due to the work. We apologize …

We have fixed the problem with attachments and images, as well as the firewall issues. Access to https://collab.cels.anl.gov should work as expected. I’ve updated the banner on collab.mcs.anl.gov to point to the new site, and we will later revert the old site to the pointer to the new URL. If you find any issues with …

We discovered attachments and images did not migrate with the site. As such, we’re bringing collab.mcs.anl.gov back for now, and turning off collab.cels.anl.gov. For the time being, please consider collab.mcs.anl.gov read only. If we don’t have a fix in place within the next couple of hours, we’ll fully release collab.mcs.anl.gov back to read/write and take …

Some issues remain on the upgrade from collab.mcs.anl.gov (Confluence v4) to collab.cels.anl.gov (Confluence v5). Primarily, the firewall exceptions to allow access from offsite are not yet in place. I’ve put in a request to have that done as soon as possible, and with luck should be in place before too long. Secondly, any custom images …

As part of our plan to merge the contents of Confluence running on xcollab.mcs.anl.gov and collab.mcs.anl.gov we will be moving https://collab.mcs.anl.gov/ to https://collab.cels.anl.gov/ and upgrading the Confluence software from 4.3 to 5.7.1 This hostname migration will occur late Saturday May 2nd (2015-05-02). During that time, it will not be possible to update or add pages …

This message applies to the people who are connecting to Dayforce via rdp.mcs.anl.gov rather than some other method. If what you’re doing is working for you, you can safely disregard this message. Recently, a Google Chrome update disabled native support of NPAPI plugins. This affects a number of plugins, including Silverlight, which is required by …