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Emergency CELS Confluence Maintenance

March 29, 2022 by Livolsi, Tim

All, Due to an urgently required security fix, both collab.cels.anl.gov and confluence.cels.anl.gov will be taken down at 5PM. We anticipate the maintenance will take two hours to complete. Contact [email protected] for issues, and sorry for any inconvenience. CELS Systems

GCE Services back in operation.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

By this point, if anything in GCE or Legacy environments is not working, that’s an outlier that should be reported. Some desktops did not come back cleanly, if yours is in that state and you’re not able to reboot it, please send a ticket to [email protected] and we’ll take care of it. Note: This announcement …

Computing outage, July 18-20th

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Due to the construction in the data center related to the Aurora project, the power to building 240 (including the data center) will be interrupted for most of the day on Monday, July 19. For CELS Computing, this will affect the various computing clusters in the room (you should get a separate communication on those), …

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xgitlab.cels.anl.gov maintenance complete

March 29, 2022 by Fritz, Brad

The migration has been completed at this time. – brad

xgitlab.cels.anl.gov maintenance this weekend (2021-07-03 through 2021-07-04)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We believe we have figured out the issue with the failed xgitlab migration from a couple of weeks ago and are going to do it again this weekend. We’ve got checks in place to detect if the same thing happens again, though we don’t suspect this will happen. xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable from noon CDT …

xigtlab.cels.anl.gov upgrade failed, need to roll back

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

This afternoon we became aware of a problem with xgitlab.cels.anl.gov where some repositories were missing their files. After extensive digging and troubleshooting, we’ve determined the best course of action is to roll back to the state of things prior to the upgrade. If you made any commits or changes after Saturday’s maintenance, you will need …

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Maintenance Complete

March 29, 2022 by Fritz, Brad

The scheduled maintenance is now complete.

Reminder: CELS Maintenance Weekend this weekend

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Please see initial announcement here. The schedule for the outages will be: Friday, June 18 5:00PM – xgitlab.cels.anl.gov and gitlab.cels.anl.gov go into maintenance mode. Saturday, June 19 10:00AM – maintenance on confluence.cels.anl.gov and jira.cels.anl.gov begins. Noon – maintenance on git.cels.anl.gov begins. Noon – various login, compute, home, and workstation nodes will reboot throughout the day to …

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Owl for Thunderbird no longer licensed

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The lab’s license for the Thunderbird extension “OWL” expired and has not been renewed since Thunderbird has native Modern Auth (Oauth2) support now.  Please see https://virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/docs/web-and-mail/configuring-thunderbird-for-mfa/ for instructions on how to configure Thunderbird.

Maintenance Weekend (June 18-20)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone. Hope your summer has started out well and you’re enjoying the 90 degree weather and the humidity. Mmmm… swampy. Anyway, I wanted to make you all aware of an upcoming maintenance weekend. During the weekend of Friday, June 18 to Sunday, June 20, we need to take various components of the infrastructure offline …

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