We’re tracking down a problem in RT that has prevented new tickets from being created. Will send an update when the issue is fixed. We have all the messages, so nothing will be lost, only delayed.

From: Dan Olson

The new copier/printers are being installed today. We’re in the process of getting them set up. We’ll send an announcement with a link to instructions when everything’s all set and ready to go. You should be able to use the copy function now, but …

This outage and upgrade is going ahead. The time frame is from noon until 5PM. Happy Thanksgiving!

The latest Zimbra release addresses a bug we’ve hit recently, and we’d like to roll it out quickly. As Thanksgiving weekend tends to be slow, this coming Saturday is the first choice. The outage would last around 5 hours (9AM to 1PM), and during t…

All, The MCS account pages recently received an update. The next time you login, you will notice a new look and some differences in the organization of data. Some of our documentation may be out-of-date regarding the new pages, but we are working …

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…