(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 …

Due to power work being performed in the data center the following computer servers were unexpectedly taken down and will remain down for the duration of the work which is expected to last approximately 3.5 hours: octopus.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov cg.mcs.anl.gov There was also a brief outage of login1 and login2.mcs.anl.gov due to the work. We apologize …

We have fixed the problem with attachments and images, as well as the firewall issues. Access to https://collab.cels.anl.gov should work as expected. I’ve updated the banner on collab.mcs.anl.gov to point to the new site, and we will later revert the old site to the pointer to the new URL. If you find any issues with …

We discovered attachments and images did not migrate with the site. As such, we’re bringing collab.mcs.anl.gov back for now, and turning off collab.cels.anl.gov. For the time being, please consider collab.mcs.anl.gov read only. If we don’t have a fix in place within the next couple of hours, we’ll fully release collab.mcs.anl.gov back to read/write and take …