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.

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 …