The disk that serves our FTP and MCS websites hosted in MCS (as opposed to the main MCS Drupal website hosted on the Argonne web server) has developed an error that was causing the server to crash. We’ve set the disk to be read-only while we sync the data to a new disk. We’ll send …

Things should be back to normal. Thanks!

We’ve encountered a problem that requires an unscheduled reboot of one of our primary virtual machine servers. This reboot will take out some core services briefly. Until things come back, many websites, git repos, mailing lists, and other services will not respond correctly. I’ll send an update when it’s resolved.

There are networking issues affecting most of Argonne right now. CIS is aware and are working on it. We’ll send a notice when we know more.

And we’re back. Things should be at the pre-upgrade state in terms of functionality. We’ll do some more dry runs on the upgrade before attempting again. Thanks for your patience.

The server is mostly back — there are some aesthetic issues we’re still ironing out, but main functionality should be there for everyone. Will send more when things are closer to done, but you can feel free to use it again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The update has hit an unforeseen snag. We’re working on bringing things back, but will probably be another couple of hours. We’ll send an update when there’s more.

All, We will be performing maintenance on our Confluence server tomorrow, May 20th at 8AM. We will also be upgrading the installation to the latest version. We expect downtime to be no more than 15-30 minutes. If you have any questions or if this outage window will cause any problems for you, please let us …

This is an update/followup to this post: http://wp.me/p3jwfN-5Z As older versions of operating systems and browsers stop being supported, the lab will be blocking their access to external sites to help prevent malicious sites from exploiting unpatched security issues. Windows XP has been blocked since April, for instance, as have older versions of Mac OS. …

Please see the announcement from CIS on their maintenance activities this weekend. WHAT ARE WE DOING? Argonne’s quarterly IT maintenance weekend is scheduled for Friday, May 16, thru Sunday, May 18. Expect that any laboratory network and core IT services may be effected during the weekend. Specifically: · Voice mail will be unavailable from 5 …