CIS is proposing the following dates for maintenance weekends. During these weekends, various lab services can be unavailable, including networking and business systems. Occasionally, the CELS Systems Team will schedule our maintenance activities to coincide with these dates, but that is flexible and should not necessarily affect your decision on whether these dates pose an …

For those who missed the announcement in Argonne Today last week, the lab has rolled out a new platform for accessing internal applications called “Dash”. The goal for this is to provide a one-stop solution for internal lab applications (including Dayforce) without requiring the VPN, and better protect the lab from possibly infected mobile and …

Hey, folks. I just wanted to drop a quick note to everyone introducing the newest member to our team, Chris Bills. Chris comes to us most recently from a stint at IBM, and has lots of experience as a quality linux systems administrator. We’re really excited to have him join us! Please feel free to …

CIS has a maintenance weekend scheduled for August 15-17. The details follow. Please let us know ASAP if you have concerns about this maintenance window. Please note the outage to the Argonne website (http://www.anl.gov) will also affect the MCS website at http://www.mcs.anl.gov, as it’s hosted on the same service. Otherwise, services provided by the CELS …

Please note the setup for the display in 3178 has changed. There were some failures in the components that were running it previously, and replacing those components didn’t seem to help. There are new and concise directions printed and posted next to the display. They are also included below. To use the AppleTV, the TV …

Please see Matt’s note below on a security vulnerability that affects Android users. Here’s the short version – there’s an issue that allows applications to masquerade as trusted apps. Google has identified the issue and is pushing out a fix. The fix is not there yet, and when it gets there will be dependent on …

We migrated the sites to the new server and re-exported the data. You should be able to read/write to these directories again. We’re spending the next couple of days looking for potential fallout from the move, so please let us know if something isn’t behaving as expected.

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.