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 Some of our documentation may be out-of-date regarding the new pages, but we are working …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…

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 …