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Maintenance window for Confluence service: December 20th 8 AM

December 19, 2023 by Cashdollar, Matthew Paul

A maintenance window for our Confluence service has been scheduled for December 20th, starting at 8 AM, in order to update the software. The Confluence service will be unavailable during the maintenance. Impacted URLs:https://confluence.cels.anl.govhttps://wiki.jlse.anl.gov Service is expected to be restored by the end of the day, and may be available sooner than that. If this …

CELS IT Town Hall November 1 2023 slides and recording available

November 3, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone.  You can find the slides and a recording of the CELS IT Town Hall from last Wednesday on Box at https://anl.box.com/v/celsittownhall2023. As noted in that presentation, we began pushing some changes to the macOS computers that are enrolled in co-management to install the Nessus/Tenable agent (reports vulnerabilities), as well as best practices for …

Maintenance window for Jira service: November 6th, 8 AM CDT

November 2, 2023 by Cashdollar, Matthew Paul

A maintenance window of our Jira service has been planned for November 6th, 8 AM CDT in order to update the software and perform database maintenance. The Jira service provided by jira.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by November 7th, 5 PM CDT, and may be available sooner than …

Emergency Confluence downtime

October 31, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Due to a security vulnerability we had to perform an emergency upgrade on the confluence sites confluence.cels.anl.gov and wiki.jlse.anl.gov.  At the moment, we expect both sites to return to service tomorrow (Wednesday).  If we can get them back faster, we will.

Docker Desktop is no longer allowed at Argonne.

August 16, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

If you currently use Docker Desktop on your Argonne computer or in support of Argonne work, read on. A couple of years back, Docker changed the licensing terms for Docker Desktop requiring all but a handful of exceptions and personal use cases to pay a license fee, and even if you were entitled to free …

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GCE and Legacy systems back from power outage

July 31, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone.  This notice will serve as an “all clear” for the affected Legacy and GCE systems from this weekend’s power outage.  Some of the special systems we run that aren’t general use are still in the process of being brought back online.  We had a number of unforeseen networking issues as part of this, …

Reminder: Building 240 Data Center Power Outage, July 28-31.

July 27, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Please see our previous announcement on this for more backstory. As always, the systems administrators of specific systems (LCRC, ALCF, etc.) will notify you of the specific outage windows for their systems.  This announcement mostly serves as a general reminder and to highlight the aspects of GCE and Legacy that are affected. All Legacy-related systems …

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Building 240 Data Center (and Building) Power Outage, July 28-31.

July 18, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone.  If there are three things you can count on as a certainty, there’s “Fast food menu pictures always look better than the actual product”, “Terms and conditions apply means you won’t get what you expect”, and “The 240 Data Center is going to have an outage quarterly.” Okay, I’m exaggerating. Sometimes the Terms …

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May/June Newsletter (plus any months missed in between)

May 31, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone!  It’s been too long!  Or maybe not long enough, depending on how you feel about these things.  In any case, let’s proceed with all the exciting news from CELS Systems. In this newsletter we’ll cover a few topics, notably: New members of CELS Systems New members of CELS for the summer (aka, Welcome …

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Most systems back from cooling outage

May 12, 2023 by Stacey, Craig

Hello, everyone.  The general use systems that are supported by the CELS Systems Team are now back from the cooling outage.  This includes Legacy logins and storage, as well as GCE systems hosted in the 240 data center.  The sysadmins of the other systems will notify you when their systems are back. If you encounter …

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