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Upcoming Wireless Network Changes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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Summary of repo.anl-external.org downtime

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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repo.anl-external.org is now back online. Will send detailed explanation of downtime later for those interested.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Progress slowed slightly. At current transfer rate we're expecting recovery around 11:30.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Progress is being made on repo.anl-external.org. Current estimate is 11AM.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

repo.anl-external.org is down

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

Things are mostly back

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

MCS Network Outage to continue

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

Things are slowly coming back. If you can use wifi instead of wireless, you should be able to connect to net.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A UPS failure has taken out various machines and networks.  The UPS is back online, but w e're still waiting on other units to recover.  More info when we have it.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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