We’re currently working on resolving a critical outage affecting many MCS and CELS systems. No ETA as to a return as we have yet to identify the actual cause. Any outages in MCS/CELS services you experience this morning are coming from this outage. More updates as we have them.

Please see the below announcement from CIS regarding the rollout of “eduroam” to the lab’s wireless networks. Please note, if you connect to the eduroam wireless network, you will be on a visitor network (i.e., no access to inside.anl.gov or other internal sites) the same as if you joined the Argonne-guest network. However, the connection …

Please see the below announcement from CIS on upcoming work at the end of the month. By the looks of it, the only outages you should expect over that weekend would be some business systems being unavailable. E-mail will be unaffected. WHAT ARE WE DOING? Argonne’s quarterly IT maintenance weekend is scheduled for Friday, August …

Please see the below announcement from ANL Cybersecurity. As noted, it’s recommended you disable automatic MMS retrieval on your device if you use Android. Depending on your MMS application, the instructions for doing this may vary. I’ve included instructions for two Google messaging apps. Check the settings in your SMS/MMS app if it’s not one …

The previously announced networking issue has been resolved for the time being, however, we do not yet have a root cause. We don’t expect another outage at the moment, but we’re keeping an eye on things in case they go down again.

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 …