March 2012 - Core-students - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Today's user termination list
by stace＠mcs.anl.gov 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Full list of people who no longer appear on the active employee list =========================================================================== 58976 MCS Kim, Hong Jun 68804 PSC Bucknall, David G. 82205 PSC Miallau, Linda 82319 PSC Schulze, Monika-Sarah E. D. 93269 NE Al Shehab, Maher M. 206229 PSC Fabbri, Jason D. 212871 ES Qu, Fei 212872 ES Liu, Yifang 217630 ES Puntambekar, Aakash 218397 PSC McDaniel, Hunter 218400 PSC White, Timothy A. 218407 PSC Yan, James J. 218408 PSC Marshall, Matthew J. 218409 PSC Wilson, Samuel A. 218417 PSC Khodadadi, Sheila 219708 NE Mitra, Soumya A. 220010 CLS Bryan Bass, Mary

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Travel update for both frequent and non-frequent Travelers
by Tina Stanton-Piersanti 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Please read ALL of the below. If you haven't traveled in the last calendar year, please log into you XM account update your personal information to insure that your next travel can be booked without an issues. Tina Begin forwarded message: > From: "Abbas-Zahraee, Dana D." <dzahraee(a)anl.gov> > Date: March 1, 2012 3:28:44 PM CST > To: "'xm-travel-representative(a)anl.gov'" <xm-travel-representative(a)anl.gov> > Cc: "O'Connor, Elizabeth A." <eoconnor(a)anl.gov>, "Marconi, Dino J." <dmarconi(a)anl.gov>, "Schikora, Tracy M." <tschikora(a)anl.gov>, "McDonnell, William P." <wmcdonnell(a)anl.gov> > Subject: travel update > > Please share the following general information with travelers in your area: > > Thank you and please contact me if you have any questions. > Dana > > Due to transition activities for the merger of Continental and United Airlines, for a six hour period on Saturday, March 3 (12:01 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.), on-line check in will not be available for United Airline flights. Also due to the transition, Omega World Travel is experiencing extended wait times for United Airline customer service calls. > > Travelers may be receiving information about the effects of the merger of Continental and United Airlines on the Mileage Plus program and membership number. It is the responsibility of the traveler to manage his or her own personal program and to update the travel profile with any changes. > > Some travelers have not updated their travel profile with the TSA required Secure Flight Passenger Data (date of birth and gender). The Omega World Travel agents must then contact the traveler for the information and manually enter the data to complete a reservation. If not previously completed, please update the GetThere travel profile with this data -the information will be masked once entered. > > For infrequent travelers, remember to periodically ( at least annually) open the travel profile, review (update if necessary) and then select save. This will trigger a “refresh” of the profile and facilitate the completion of future reservations. > > Travelers must contact Omega World Travel for all international travel reservations and travel containing a personal segment. GetThere should only be used for domestic travel reservations with no personal segment. > > Travelers should always review the trip itinerary when received via e-mail for accuracy. > > The ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) guest house is now open for visitor use. > > Please contact Bill McDonnell at wmcdonnell(a)anl.gov if you would like to attend an XM Expense Management System training session. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dana Zahraee dzahraee(a)anl.gov > Argonne National Laboratory > Manager of General Accounting & Travel Services > Phone: 630 252-3224 > Fax: 630 252-8270 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > _______________________________________________ > xm-travel-representative mailing list > xm-travel-representative(a)lists.anl.gov > https://lists.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/xm-travel-representative

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Network Maintenance Tomorrow, Friday March 2, 2012 @ 0530hrs CST for 30 minutes
by Schmitz Corby 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Here is my draft ... I need help with the impact statement as I am unsure what is actually running out of 221 these days. I want to get this out ASAP today, so please comment at your earliest convenience. - ---------------- In response to the JC3-CIRC Tech Bulletin U-107, we will be performing a software upgrade on our core cisco nexus 5020 switch. There is currently an exploit in the wild which can cause the device to be rebooted remotely. There is currently no way to defend against this attack other than to upgrade. We will be migrating from version 4.2.1.N2.1 to 5.1.3.N1.1a. This is a major upgrade which may result in an extended upgrade period. For this reason, I am reserving a 30 minute timeslot for the work. I expect the upgrade to take no more than 10 minutes, but I cannot be sure. We have upgraded other units in the same way and have seen the times in the 10 minute range, but the vendor has stated that there can be complications causing it to take up to 30 minutes. If, by chance, we are exploited and the 5020 reboots, I have pre-staged the images such that when it comes back up it will be patched and no longer vulnerable. During the upgrade window access to many internal MCS systems will be impacted. This includes, but is not limited to, login nodes, compute nodes, file services, etc. Services that will NOT be impacted are cryptocard, core web services and email. I will provide an all-clear message when the work is done. Based on the impact to file services, it may be necessary to reboot desktop systems to clear problems. Please reboot your system if you are experiencing problems on Friday morning. If the problem persists, please contact the helpdesk. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at your earliest convenience. - -- Corby Schmitz Network Communication Operations and Support Manager Computer and Information Systems Division - - Network Engineer MREN/Starlight - -- Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 Desk: 630-252-7664 Cell: 630-512-1502 E-mail: schmitz(a)anl.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iD8DBQFPT4QNQhpwH3ALVFERAjDuAJ9XdYIN3RKp/PnRt36se2XMeqYumQCg05rZ gXITIKHZKOoEhn9lAtv1P74= =K86Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Backup-Failure-Notice
by root＠lal.mcs.anl.gov 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

ATTENTION The following systems have passed their scheduled backup times. Listed are the date and time of the last backup completed. NODE FILESPACE DATE TIME GIRARD.MCS.ANL.GOV /www 2011-11-22 08:08:04.000000 GIRARD.MCS.ANL.GOV /neos-jobs 2011-11-22 08:00:36.000000 GIRARD.MCS.ANL.GOV /var/log 2011-11-22 08:00:25.000000 GIRARD.MCS.ANL.GOV / 2011-11-22 08:00:23.000000 GIRARD.MCS.ANL.GOV /sandbox 2011-11-22 08:00:23.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/request 2011-10-30 15:34:07.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/ruppert-share 2011-10-30 15:34:07.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/nt-homes001/maxadam-admin2011-10-30 15:34:04.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/mcs-homes29 2011-10-30 09:16:56.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/esh 2011-10-28 11:19:58.000000 AHA.MCS.ANL.GOV /failover/var 2011-10-05 05:55:16.000000 AHA.MCS.ANL.GOV /failover/tmp 2011-10-05 05:55:15.000000 AHA.MCS.ANL.GOV /failover 2011-10-05 05:55:14.000000 AHA.MCS.ANL.GOV /u99 2011-10-05 05:54:20.000000 AHA.MCS.ANL.GOV /u02 2011-10-05 05:54:19.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/CELSAdmin 2011-09-02 18:12:59.000000 BUNTINAS-MAC.MCS.ANL.GOV / 2011-08-05 16:30:44.000000 REPO.UC.TERAGRID.ORG /var/lib/cvs 2011-05-06 00:44:55.000000 PORTAL1.UC.TERAGRID.ORG /var 2011-05-05 23:49:26.000000 PORTAL1.UC.TERAGRID.ORG / 2011-05-05 23:49:25.000000 PORTAL1.UC.TERAGRID.ORG /home 2011-05-05 23:48:59.000000 PORTAL2.UC.TERAGRID.ORG /var 2011-05-05 20:47:42.000000 PORTAL2.UC.TERAGRID.ORG / 2011-05-05 20:47:41.000000 PORTAL2.UC.TERAGRID.ORG /home 2011-05-05 20:47:18.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/media 2011-02-14 16:26:17.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/linux-debian_sarge 2011-02-14 10:52:41.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/www.accessgrid.org 2011-02-14 10:22:22.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/www.bgl.mcs.anl.gov 2011-02-14 10:20:42.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/www.ivdgl.org 2011-02-14 10:19:34.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /exports/www.gridforum.org 2011-02-14 10:18:00.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /disks/weblogs 2011-02-14 09:13:24.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /disks/nt-homes001/maxadam-admin2011-02-14 06:36:39.000000 HOMES.MCS.ANL.GOV /disks/root 2011-02-14 00:57:04.000000 If any of these file systems no longer exist, you can stop receiving emails by contacting systems(a)mcs.anl.gov. The tables and software are still under development and may change.

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Today's user termination list
by stace＠mcs.anl.gov 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Full list of people who no longer appear on the active employee list =========================================================================== 54265 CSE Sun, Yang K. 83696 PSC Omelon, Christopher R. 84821 PSC Huang, Hua 87565 PSC Qiu, Xiangyun 206874 ES Li, Zongzhi 212861 ES Arthur, Christina 214320 CSE Broderick, Erin M. 217215 ES Fisher, Francisco Lucas 218291 PSC Lou, Xiaohua 218383 OPS Dines, Megan T. 218384 OPS Nadelman, Ira 218385 OPS Chinniah, Nim 218726 PSC Madathil, Sineej 220099 ES Winkelman, James R. 221113 PHY Sharma, Arjun 221251 PSC Birkel, Alexander 221574 MSD Zalazar, Martin A. 221981 PSC Dharmarajan, Venkatasubramanian 221983 PSC Yang, Lefu 224025 PSC Choi, Byoung-Ho 224162 OCF Maddox, Lisa 224193 HR Navratil, Diane E.

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Userbase update this evening
by Chris Walker 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

This evening, at about 8pm, I'll be updating userbase to the latest and greatest release version. This update a variety of improvements, and should offer an increase in stability for the user-facing components of the system. These improvements include: - visual changes to the sponsor page to improve usability - ldap scripts now verify their operations were successful by re-querying the server instead of relying on library function result codes. Many scripts are also shared between domains as well - UI improvements for LCRC account management - a new state for resource requests was added, which will hold an auto-approved resource in a pending state until the account is approved. This fixes the issue of users who are supposed to belong to a group, netgroup, etc but are not in LDAP even though they're active in userbase. (Userbase's scripts do not add inactive users to netgroups, etc) Additionally, all domain front-ends have received extensive testing and process improvements for the request process. I feel the user-facing portion of the system is more robust, stable, and all around better than it ever has been in the past. If you would like to read more about the updates this release includes, see the Userbase trac site, http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/userbase2/ and review the items listed in the Feb2 sprint. Most folks who get this email should be able to log in, if you find that not to be the case, just reply to me and we'll get you added.. The next sprint, "Feb3", is nearly planned out, while you're there feel free to review what's coming up, and submit tickets for features, bugs, or just things we need to discuss I expect the deployment to take more than an hour but less than 3, and I'll be stopping the event queue while this is going on (since much of the script configuration is changing). Account and resource requests will work fine, but updates will not leave userbase until I've setup the new configuration. Thanks, Chris

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