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Maintenance Weekend this weekend, Town Hall slides, next town hall

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone. Trying to keep the announcement emails to a minimum, so here’s a twofer. Maintenance Weekend Feb 19-21 As previously announced, we’ll be performing some disruptive maintenance this weekend, which means there are some aspects of the environment that will be unavailable for various portions of the weekend. We’ve got other updates we are …

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Upcoming maintenance weekend Feb 19-21, GCE Town Hall links

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone, happy Friday! Hope you’re staying warm! First up, thanks to those who were able to attend the first GCE Town Hall this afternoon. You’ll find the slides and recording at anl.box.com/v/StaceTalksANL in the 2021 directory. The next Town Hall is Tuesday, Feb 9 at 3PM. See virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/2021/01/20/weekly-cels-systems-town-halls/ for more info and joining details. …

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OWL Plugin for Thunderbird EOL

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Please see the below announcement from BIS. WHAT ARE WE DOING? BIS is asking anyone who uses Thunderbird as their default mail client to setup their account with native OAuth2 instead of OWL. WHY ARE WE DOING IT? The official end date for the OWL plugin is 03/06/21. The newest versions of Thunderbird now natively …

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Today’s CELS Systems Town Hall canceled

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Sorry about this. In a master stroke of timing, my network has been up and down all morning, and my backup network isn’t resilient enough to host a bluejeans session through. We’ll pick up next week, Feb 5 at 2PM.

Weekly CELS Systems Town Halls

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone!  As we roll out more services in GCE and start the process of retiring end-of-life servers and services, I wanted to make sure the lines of communication were wide open so you can understand what it means for you, and we can understand what your concerns are. First up, I’m generally pretty available …

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Announcing git services in GCE and pending retirement of gitlab/xgitlab servers.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, everyone! As part of our continuing push to make GCE a full service computing environment for our researchers, and to get to our goal of retiring old and outdated servers and services, we’re delighted to announce that our new Gitlab service in GCE is now live. Server: git.cels.anl.gov Documentation: virtualhelpdesk.cels.anl.gov/docs/service-catalog/developer-and-collaboration-tools-and-services/gitlab/ This new server is …

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Brief maintenance on wordpress.cels.anl.gov tonight (1/14) at 5PM CST.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Around 5:30 this morning the virtual machine that serves wordpress.cels.anl.gov had a failure. We restored service at 8:41, but we want to put a longer-term solution in place to prevent this in the future. This requires a reboot of the server. It shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes, but I wanted to provide a heads-up. …

ANL Business apps (XINK, ISAAC, etc) have degraded performance this morning.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

BIS is aware of the issue and is working on rectifying it. See vector.anl.gov in the “News” section (bottom center) for more info. Wee, happy new year!

Slack is having issues this morning. See https://status.slack.com/ for details.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

status.slack.com/

Changes in printing to 240 copiers coming Dec 11.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi again, everyone! This notice is of particular interest to the folks who work in building 240 (or will do so again once this whole thing is in the past). On Friday morning, Dec 11, BIS will begin converting the CELS Canon printer/copiers to BIS management. You’ll get a separate notice from them about this, …

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