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Month: January 2018

COMPLETE: Maintenance of CELS Confluence service

January 23, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Work to upgrade and migrate our Confluence service at https://collab.cels.anl.gov has been completed.

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STARTING: Maintenance of CELS Confluence service https://collab.cels.anl.gov/

January 23, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

We will be performing maintenance of the CELS Confluence service, available at https://collab.cels.anl.gov, this evening. Confluence service and access to documentation will be disrupted during this maintenance window; from 17:00 to 20:00 CST, Today, 2018-01-23. Service is expected to be restored by 20:00 CST, and may be available sooner than that. We will send a …

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UPDATE: BIO File server down (Z Drive, Y Drive)

January 23, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

The restore is progressing. At the moment, it’s still restoring directory structure and hasn’t transferred any actual files yet. As such, I can’t calculate an expected ETA. I will say with some confidence it won’t be done today. There are just under 4TB of data to restore, so once I get a good idea of …

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Update: sto10 file server status

January 23, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Greetings, We got the server into a fairly stable state early this morning, and we don’t anticipate needing to take it down during business hours today. It may be necessary to work on it some more, but if at all possible we will not interrupt service until after hours. Thanks for your patience

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BIO File server down (Z Drive, Y Drive)

January 22, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Tonight, the disk array providing the Windows homedirs for BIO suffered a catastrophic failure. We have backups of the data and have begun the process of restoring it to a different disk array in the hopes of getting it all up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately until that is complete, the Z drive and Y …

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UPDATE: sto10 fileserver

January 22, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Greetings, We have run into a few problems, the system is online and usable at the moment but we are seeing errors occurring on the filesystem, we have a ticket open with Oracle and are running diagnostic tools. We will need to restart the system at least one more time. The system will be coming …

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Urgent File server sto10 reboot today at 5PM

January 22, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Greetings, In order to install urgently required system patches we must reboot the main MCS/CELS file server known as sto10.mcs.anl.gov at 5PM today, January 22nd. We anticipate the outage to last no more than one hour. During this time logins to the login machines and workstations will not be possible and access to most project …

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Maintenance: Confluence service 2018-01-23 (Tuesday) 17:00 – 20:00 CST

January 18, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window for the Confluence service hosted by https://collab.cels.anl.gov has been scheduled for Tuesday, 2018-01-23 from 17:00 to 20:00 CST in order to update the software it is using. Confluence service and access to documentation will be disrupted during this window as we switch over to the new server. Service is expected to be …

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CANCELED: Maintenance: Confluence service 2018-01-14 (Sunday)

January 11, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

Per vendor recommendations we are postponing the work planned for Sunday so that we can update the backend database for Confluence prior to making the upgrade / migration. Confluence service will remain available, and there will be no planned outage on Sunday as previously announced.

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Maintenance: Confluence service 2018-01-14 (Sunday) 17:00 – 20:00 CST

January 11, 2018 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window for the Confluence service hosted by https://collab.cels.anl.gov has been scheduled for Sunday, 2018-01-14 from 17:00 to 20:00 CST in order to update the software it is using. Confluence service and access to documentation will be disrupted during this window as we switch over to the new server. Service is expected to be …

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