In reply to Erich56's message of 26 Feb 2026:

In reply to ivan's message of 24 Feb 2026:

We've now been told that the cleanest solution is to rebuild the host from scratch, so that is being worked on.

Ivan, any idea how long this might take? a couple of days? 1 week or 2? or even longer?

I'm not sure at the moment, but I have just noticed that the condor collector is responding to network queries again, so I think that means the firewall rules are back in operation. I've submitted some tasks and now wait to see if they pick up jobs -- current indications are that there aren't jobs running, but the monitoring is always a bit behind real-time.

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Hmm, no, the tasks timed out without picking up jobs.

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In reply to ivan's message of 26 Feb 2026:

Hmm, no, the tasks timed out without picking up jobs.

Ah, the WMAgent is down; I've asked for it to be reset.

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In reply to ivan's message of 26 Feb 2026:

In reply to ivan's message of 26 Feb 2026:

Hmm, no, the tasks timed out without picking up jobs.

Ah, the WMAgent is down; I've asked for it to be reset.

Ivan, any idea when the WMAgent will function again ?

Are we supposed to try to run CMS WUs or not? All of mine are failing.

In reply to Aurum's message of 27 Feb 2026:

Are we supposed to try to run CMS WUs or not? All of mine are failing.

obviously, still no jobs - see Grafana:

https://monit-grafana.cern.ch/d/o3dI49GMz/cms-job-monitoring-12m?viewPanel=49&orgId=11&var-group_by=CMS_JobType&var-Tier=All&var-CMS_WMTool=All&var-CMS_SubmissionTool=All&var-CMS_CampaignType=All&var-Site=T3_CH_Volunteer&var-Site=T3_CH_CMSAtHome&var-Type=All&var-CMS_JobType=All&var-CMSPrimaryDataTier=All&var-adhoc=data.RecordTime|%3E|now-7d&var-ScheddName=All&from=now-24h&to=now#_=_

I can't access your reference. The Server Status shows 200 WUs. I'll try again next week.

I have set No New Tasks

In reply to Toby Broom's message of 27 Feb 2026:

I have set No New Tasks

I think that's wise. :-( The certificate/firewall problem seems to be resolved, but no tasks are getting jobs from the Condor server. I've not heard any more news since yesterday, so I presume nothing will be resolved before Monday.

On a personal note, my Visiting Fellowship at the uni expires on Sunday, despite assurances it would be renewed, so I may lose all my network accesses there. Helpfully, there is a 60-day grace period before I lose CERN access.

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In reply to ivan's message of 27 Feb 2026:

On a personal note, my Visiting Fellowship at the uni expires on Sunday, despite assurances it would be renewed, so I may lose all my network accesses there. Helpfully, there is a 60-day grace period before I lose CERN access.

I hope so Ivan.......I guess this was the only way to get me to run Atlas instead of CMS

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In reply to Magic Quantum Mechanic's message of 28 Feb 2026:

In reply to ivan's message of 27 Feb 2026:

On a personal note, my Visiting Fellowship at the uni expires on Sunday, despite assurances it would be renewed, so I may lose all my network accesses there. Helpfully, there is a 60-day grace period before I lose CERN access.

I hope so Ivan.......I guess this was the only way to get me to run Atlas instead of CMS

I have to admit, ATLAS has been far more supportive of XXX@Home than CMS ever was. (I got roped into CMS@Home ages ago because I was the leading UK contributor to SETI@Home. at the time).

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I have to admit, ATLAS has been far more supportive of XXX@Home than CMS ever was. (I got roped into CMS@Home ages ago because I was the leading UK contributor to SETI@Home. at the time).

Well the main reason I ran all those CMS here and at -dev was when it is running I didn't have to depend on the super speed internet and Atlas is a internet hog up and down.......I have run some here but the last time was when we had Atlas -Test running so there was only 2 of us that are still here and I rather not have as many Atlas running at the same time since with all the ones I have running it is at times fast d/l but u/l is slow over and over. (yeah I was at seti classic too)

In reply to ivan's message of 27 Feb 2026:

On a personal note, my Visiting Fellowship at the uni expires on Sunday, despite assurances it would be renewed, so I may lose all my network accesses there. Helpfully, there is a 60-day grace period before I lose CERN access.

Ivan, this is sad to read :-(
Is there anyone else in sight who will take over?

In reply to Erich56's message of 28 Feb 2026:

In reply to ivan's message of 27 Feb 2026:

On a personal note, my Visiting Fellowship at the uni expires on Sunday, despite assurances it would be renewed, so I may lose all my network accesses there. Helpfully, there is a 60-day grace period before I lose CERN access.

Ivan, this is sad to read :-(
Is there anyone else in sight who will take over?

Well, Federica has been helping me for a few years, and has even taken a leading role at times (especially where HTCondor is concerned), so not all is lost.

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In reply to ivan's message of 1 Mar 2026:

Well, Federica has been helping me for a few years, and has even taken a leading role at times (especially where HTCondor is concerned), so not all is lost.

thanks, Ivan, for the information. So let's keep our fingers crossed :-)

BTW: CMS tasks still don't work, so probably the WMAgent is still down. Any news on this ?

In reply to Erich56's message of 3 Mar 2026:

In reply to ivan's message of 1 Mar 2026:

Well, Federica has been helping me for a few years, and has even taken a leading role at times (especially where HTCondor is concerned), so not all is lost.

thanks, Ivan, for the information. So let's keep our fingers crossed :-)

BTW: CMS tasks still don't work, so probably the WMAgent is still down. Any news on this ?

No, I've not had any updates since last week, and Federica is away at a conference at the moment.

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Ivan, any idea when CMS will function again?

In reply to Erich56's message of 5 Mar 2026:

Ivan, any idea when CMS will function again?

No, not at the moment. I'm locked out of my Uni digital resources at the moment -- which I expected, but it came without warning[0]. So, I wasn't able to try to set up a redirect from my uni e-mail account to gmail in time :-(.

[0] My group leader assures me that he put in a request to extend my Visiting Fellowship. but the new beancounter regime now requires £1,000 p.a. to cover "overheads" for such positions, and we don't have any facility/grant in place to cover it[1].

[1] Ironic, because at our meeting this afternoon he was able to give me my Certificate from the Breakthrough Prize confirming my contribution to the $1,000,000 award they gave to CMS last year. (This money went to a fund for Young Researchers to work at CERN. There doesn't seem to be a similar fund to help experienced researchers to avoid the boredom of retirement.)

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Ivan, still no idea when CMS will be up again?

Is this why all my recent jobs failed with
errors Too many total results

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