Please see the below announcement from CIS. I encourage anyone who’s doing web application development to attend, or at least one person from each group engaged in that sort of activity. As the systems administrators, we get notified whenever a web app on a system we’re responsible for has a detected vulnerability, and based on …

The “File Transfer Application” provided by CIS has been supplanted by Box as the preferred method of sharing large files with outside collaborators. The existing app will be decommissioned next week. See the below announcement. Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:53 AM Subject: Decommission of File Transfer Application To IT Admins, WHAT ARE WE DOING? …

If you’re running the latest version of Chrome (and, really, you should always be running the most recent stable version of any browser for security reasons), you will have issues using Blue Jeans on either Mac OS X or Linux. “Service Advisory: Mac customers upgraded to Chrome version 39 or above will not be able …

Due to the installation of cubicles, walk-up service to the CELS help desk will be unavailable Wednesday through Friday. During this period, if you require assistance, please contact us via email ([email protected] or [email protected]) or via telephone (x6813). In a pinch, you can stop by room 2136. Thanks!

These services should be back online. The networking maintenance over the weekend resulted in a missed configuration on the routers and some hosts in 221 lost their routes. If you notice any other downed hosts, please let us know and we’ll get them taken care of. From: <Leggett>, Ti Leggett <leggett> Date: Monday, November 10, …

The Git, SVN and trac services are currently down. We are working to get them fixed ASAP and will announce when all services are back and functional.

Rather than inundate you with mailings, I’m sending this omnibus note with pointers to blog postings outlining the issues. I’ll also note you can follow @mcssys on twitter or check the blog at http://mcssys.wordpress.com (or http://mcs.anl.gov/systems/blog) for updates as well. First up, for a summary of the repo.anl-external.org outage, see http://wp.me/p3jwfN-77. Next, a notice on …

Please see the following notice from CIS regarding other maintenance activity this weekend.  CELS Systems has not scheduled any outages during this window, so the only outages you should notice are outlined below, and are generally restricted to Argonne central systems, including Wifi and Voicemail.  Servers and services not listed below (including all provided by …

Please see the following notice from CIS. The short version of the story is that next week, you will notice a change in the wireless network names used onsite. Specifically instead of the many options you currently see, there will primarily only be two: Argonne-auth and Argonne-guest. As with the current setup, connections to the …

Executive summary VM Hypervisor showed signs of going bad on Friday night.  Mitigating steps were taken.  Server failed on Sunday night too late for anyone to be able to work on it until Monday.  Server was restored at 11:30AM.  Hypervisor is now stable, however critical services hosted on that hypervisor will be moved to more …