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 …

We are working to bring it back up. We’re hopeful it will be back online within the hour, I will send updates if that changes.

CIS successfully revived our router, and most MCS hosts and services are back online. We’re still looking over the monitoring to identify what are actual issues vs. transient errors that will self-correct (some servers may not be properly syncing their time via NTP, for example), and will be addressing them as we find them. If …

The unexpected power issue that caused this outage has caused a failure in a critical component of the MCS router. We’re currently working with CIS on getting this back online, either with a replacement supervisor card, or an ad-hoc temporary solution until a replacement can be installed. We’re currently estimating another couple of hours of …