Our primary database server has gone offline and this is affecting our ticketing system, WordPress installations and other web applications. We are working on the issue and will announce when things are back.

Hi All, Over the next several business days, we will be performing maintenance on the following MCS compute servers with an outage window expected from 9am to 3pm. Wednesday, May 7th: crank.mcs.anl.gov steamroller.mcs.anl.gov Thursday, May 8th: grind.mcs.anl.gov churn.mcs.anl.gov Friday, May 9th: trounce.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov Monday, May 12th: vanquish.mcs.anl.gov thrash.mcs.anl.gov Tuesday, May 13th: octopus.mcs.anl.gov During this maintenance …

Hey, just a reminder that this audit (mentioned previously here: http://mcssys.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/be-diligent-in-protecting-your-account-data-and-equipment/) is happening. We always expect you to be on your guard, so this is just a friendly reminder to pay extra attention. Thanks!

Received the following from CIS: Dayforce reports that the issues we have reported have been resolved. Thank you, Jack

In case you’re having issues with dayforce: After scheduled Dayforce maintenance today we have noticed intermittent issues with trying to connect or manage reports: a) Users login and sit at the attached screen with the greenbar showing Dayforce/HCM loading, but it never connects. Killing the browser and then re-logging in to a new browser instance …

Hi all, Our compute servers are due for some maintenance and reconfiguring. We’re going to start this process by doing a single one, and based on that decide the schedule for the rest. Pay special attention – /sandbox will not be preserved. This maintenance will also become a quarterly thing on our compute servers, including …

The lab is looking into what it’s going to do for a conferencing solution going forward. We currently use Adobe Connect (which is up for renewal at end of the fiscal year) as well as ReadyTalk (which is going away at the end of the FY). If you have any thoughts on what you do …

All, We’re going to postpone this upgrade. WordPress put out a new major release since the first upgrade announcement yesterday and we’ll need to test it first. thanks! -John On Apr 16, 2014, at 1:32 PM, John Roberts wrote: > All, > > We need to upgrade our WordPress install to the latest version. We …

All, We need to upgrade our WordPress install to the latest version. We plan to do this tomorrow, April 17th, at Noon. Downtime is expected to only last for a couple of minutes. The following sites will be affected: argo-osr.org cerisc.mcs.anl.gov esp.alcf.anl.gov estrfi.cels.anl.gov events.alcf.anl.gov events.cels.anl.gov extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov inside.cels.anl.gov jlse.anl.gov papka.alcf.anl.gov press3.mcs.anl.gov sc11.anl.gov sc12.anl.gov symposium30.cels.anl.gov tcs.anl.gov www.mpich.org …

We have successfully wrangled the beast. Boy, do we hate botnets.