Hello all, After a [much!] longer than anticipated downtime the Apple File Server named silver.mcs.anl.gov is back on the network and available. Thank you all for your patience with this and I’m very sorry for the inconvenience, we migrated up 2 major OS releases and to new higher capacity hardware. It should feel pretty snappy. …

The planned maintenance is (mostly) done, with all externally exposed servers now back. Things went well. Only the upgrade to our Mac file server (silver) is taking longer than planned and likely won’t be done until tomorrow. Thus endeth the maintenance haiku festival on twitter.com/mcssys. Thanks for your patience, all.

Hey, folks. Just a reminder this work is happening this weekend. I’m including a brief summary below, but you should see the following blog posts for further details. I’ve been updating them as appropriate. http://mcssys.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/update-cels-it-maintenance-weekend-928-929/ http://wp.me/p3jwfN-4O From 8AM until 8PM on Saturday, September 28th, we will be performing necessary maintenance on a number of servers …

We’ve fixed the issue with repocafe and all repos should be back and operational. Please report any issues to systems. Thanks! — Craig

We’ve encountered a problem with repo.anl-external.org and it will be offline until the issue is resolved. It may not be back until tomorrow morning. Sorry for any inconvenience.

This announcement is being sent out to anyone with a mailbox on the ANL Zimbra server in MCS, CELS, or ALCF rather than the broader CELS Systems Announcements list. You can also find this on the MCS Systems Blog at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/systems/blog, and the Systems Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/mcssys. CIS is expecting to be able to …

Please see the previous announcement here: http://wp.me/p3jwfN-4O The outage window will start at 8AM on Saturday, September 28th. We’re allowing for a 12 hour window, though we hope to be done in half that time. git.mcs.anl.gov and git.kbase.us are added to the list of affected servers and services. Once this work is complete, all of …

Hey, folks. First up, a reminder that Zimbra is being upgraded by CIS tomorrow (9/14), with an outage window of 9AM to 3PM. During that time, Zimbra will be inaccessible. Any mail sent during that window will be delivered after the downtime. Next up, we’ve got some maintenance work on our servers that we can’t …

Greetings, all. Just dropping a note to let you know we have a couple of new faces working at the help desk starting this week. Martino Henderson and Kevin Walker both joined us starting on Monday, and will be taking on help desk and user support while John and Max will be working on more …

The Zimbra upgrade previously planned for this weekend has been postponed. The proposed time for the upgrade is now September 14. The outage window would be from 9AM through 2PM on that Saturday. During the outage window, mail and calendar would be unavailable. If this proposed upgrade poses a problem, please let me know ASAP. …