The power work was completed ahead of schedule. Power is back to the building, but due to the coordination problems of shifting the schedule, we’re not changing it. (For instance, can’t turn on cooling to the datacenter until there’s sufficient lo…

Please note this will affect all machines in the datacenter. Primary websites will stay up, as will cryptocard, database servers, mailing lists, and RT, as we have hosted those servers in another building. Compute servers, file servers, and cluste…

It’s time to conduct our User Feedback survey. (Well, past time, really, since it’s been over a year.) You can find the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KVTHY6Y (also linked off our blog (systemsblog.mcs.anl.gov), and the IT Wiki (mcs.an…

(earlier, blog only) > I’ve identified and replaced the failed server, and authentication is working again. We’ve got some NFS issues lingering that I’m tracking down that are preventing people from logging into the login servers. I’ll post anothe…

I’ve identified and replaced the failed server, and authentication is working again. We’ve got some NFS issues lingering that I’m tracking down that are preventing people from logging into the login servers. I’ll post another update once that’s ta…

We’re tracking down a problem in MCS that’s affecting all logins for MCS users, as well as Zimbra authentication. Zimbra may have other issues — it’s not clear if this is caused by the outage on the MCS side or not at this point. I have reports C…

Begin forwarded message: > Subject: Emergency VPN Maintenance >> Impact: All VPN Users >> Begin: August 4th, 5:15PM >> End: August 4th, 5:30PM >>> Summary: >>> We are experiencing hardware failure on our VPN, it is currently up and running but in …

I’m getting asked more about upgrades to Mac OS 10.7 (OS X Lion). Here’s the situation, as I know it: * The lab has a list of over 700 interested clients interested in upgrading to Lion (this includes everyone MCS Systems reports who’s using OS X)…

Power has been restored and we are working to restore services.

A good portion of the ANL site has lost power, including TCS.