If you are using an Argonne-owned Mac laptop in MCS, CELS, LCF, CI, or IGSB and would like to be part of the lab’s Mountain Lion purchase (for installing now or later), please send a note to [email protected] indicating whether you want the clie…

As part of the larger network upgrade the lab is doing, one of the border routers will be replaced from 7PM through 11PM on Thursday. Because it is our backup link, the 4 hour work window should have no real impact on operations, and the expectati…

stomp.mcs.anl.gov has a bad hard drive. We are shutting this host down until we can replace it. In the meantime, please use one of the other compute servers such as thwomp.mcs.anl.gov or crush.mcs.anl.gov. [EDIT: The machine is now back.]

CIS reports all systems back. Mail should work as expected now if you were previously experiencing trouble.Begin forwarded message:All systems are back online, including email. You may experience delay in delivery of email messages for a little wh…

At least one of the Zimbra servers was hit by the power outage on the site earlier this afternoon. Admins are working to get it back online. Access to your mailbox will be limited until this is stabilized. We’ll send an update when we know more.

In order to increase the amount of disk available to the Zimbra servers, the servers will need to be rebooted. There is a certain amount of urgency in this, in that the current shortage is causing backups to fail. As such, the plan is to reboot th…

Emergency maintenance will be performed tomorrow afternoon June 1st, 2012 between 2pm and 2:30pm central time on the server that hosts the following services: All MCS / ALCF / CELS hosted mailing lists status.alcf.anl.gov dust.mcs.anl.gov (ALCF we…

Well, that didn’t work. The server went down again. We’re going to move the VMs to another hypervisor for now. This will result in some degraded performance, but it should at least stay up. (I’m sending this while the list server is down, but also…

This weekend is a planned maintenance weekend for CIS, and some work being done will affect us. Specifically: – Short network interruptions (less than 60 seconds per interruption) (Saturday) — These short rolling outages will affect mail, calenda…

A critical server crashed in the middle of the night, taking down CI authentication. Normally, this should not cause too big a problem, as we have backup authentication servers. However, there appears to be a misconfiguration on the Zimbra servers…