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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…