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Spam Quarantine will be disabled for one week starting Sunday

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

During CIS’s maintenance weekend (August 17-19), they will be upgrading the IronPort spam appliance that filters all our mail. One of the things it does right now is take mail that it’s flagged as spam, and puts it into a quarantine. You may have …

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Zimbra (Mail, Calendar) outage on Sunday, August 19

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

CIS is planning to install an update to the Zimbra server on Sunday, August 19th. This will involve a downtime of 3-4 hours starting at 9AM, during which time you will not be able to check mail or calendars. Depending on your setup, you may not be…

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Confluence outage Monday 8/6 @ 5pm

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We will be upgrading the Confluence server (collab.mcs.anl.gov) software on Monday evening at 5pm. Users may see an outage of up to 1 hour while the work is done. We are hopeful this upgrade will resolve some page edit restriction bugs we are seei…

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New SVN service available / Confluence update

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’re proud to unveil a new service that people with MCS workstation accounts can take advantage of. It’s a self-service SVN repository. We aren’t targeting this as a replacement for existing SVN repositories, instead it’s geared towards those qui…

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Upgrading to Mountain Lion

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Brief network outage on Thursday (7/26).

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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stomp failed hard drive [Update: Machine back]

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.]

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Labcast: All systems are back online

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Zimbra issues from power outage

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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.

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Brief Zimbra Outage, Wednesday June 6, 8:00 PM – 8:30 PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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