Hi, folks! I’ve got a few updates and timelines related to the CELS General Computing Environment, but I’ll go over them in a follow-up next week.  Right now, I want to let you know about some updated requirements that have come to us from Washington.  Executive Order 14028 from May 2021 required all agencies to …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for January 4 at 5pm in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by git.cels.anl.gov, gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during the maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 6pm. If this window poses undue inconvenience, please let us know, we can …

Hi, everyone! It’s been too long since I’ve written one of these, so we’ve got a lot to go over. I’m going to try to keep this brief, since I’m fully aware that if I unleash a firehose of information at you, what I’ll end up with is a lot of confused people who only know they’re wet and don’t understand why. (more…)

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 10/18 at 5pm in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by git.cels.anl.gov, gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during the maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 10/18 at 6pm. If this window poses undue inconvenience, please let us know, we …

Hi, everyone.  There was an announcement about this sent out by the lab on Friday, but we can see there are a number of computers that still have not applied the required updates.  This is not an optional update, and needs to be taken care of ASAP.  It will require a reboot as part of …

We just received word of an exploit from Atlassian (makers of Confluence) that affects the versions of Confluence we host on-site.  They do not yet have a fix.  Until they do, access to collab.cels.anl.gov, confluence.cels.anl.gov, and wiki.jlse.anl.gov will be limited to internal access only.  (We are separately dealing with an issue with wiki.jlse.anl.gov such that …

We need to apply an emergency security update to our gitlab servers.  Affected servers are git.cels.anl.gov, gitlab.cels.anl.gov, xgitlab.cels.anl.gov.  Sorry for the short notice, but that’s how security updates sometimes come our way.

As one can surmise by the title, as well as for anyone who cares to check the history of these things, my aspirations of a monthly newsletter have evolved into “Every other month isn’t too bad, right?”  Polite readers will refrain from pointing out it’s already May. Perhaps, with all the happenings this newsletter is …

This announcement pertains to macOS users. We’ve received word from DHS that macOS Monterey (macOS 12), must be upgraded to 12.3.1 by April 25. Here’s what you need to know: If your Mac is fully managed (by either CELS Systems or BIS Desktop Support), the upgrade will be scheduled for you and you will be …

A critical security update is needed on all our gitlab servers. We will start the patching at 5:00 PM. For each system, we expect the outage to be 30 minutes, with all servers complete by 6:30 PM. During this time, any connection issues you experience with any of gitlab.cels.anl.gov, git.cels.anl.gov, and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov are to be …