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Derek Calderon

Jacobs Hall Wi-Fi Issues and Maintenance 3/14/16 10PM

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The wireless networks in Jacobs Hall are currently malfunctioning due to a defect in the new code which was applied on Friday night. This defect has disabled the wireless network by preventing the APs from powering on fully. Staff are currently implementing a hardware based workaround which will bring the APs online for the afternoon.

We have identified a newer version that closes this particular defect, and confirmed with campus IST that it does work as expected. This upgrade will be applied tonight at 10PM and will involve a brief (~2 minute) downtime for the wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall.
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Scheduled Storage Outage, Fri. 3/11/16 10PM

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This Friday at 10PM we will be doing a software upgrade on the switch which provides connectivity for the EECS storage infrastructure. This upgrade is to address an issue with in-band management of the switch.

All storage services (home directories, project storage, etc.) will be briefly unavailable during the upgrade. Past experience suggests that this downtime will only last approximately five minutes. We strongly recommend that you save and close all open files in home and project spaces before 10PM on Friday. Machines with permanent NFS mounts may need to be rebooted after the maintenance is complete.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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Jacobs Hall Network Maintenance, 3/11/16 10PM

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We will be performing a software upgrade on the Jacobs Hall switch on this Friday, the 11th, at 10PM. This upgrade will address an issue with in-band management of the switch.

We expect all wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall to be unavailable for five to ten minutes while the upgrade is performed.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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BWRC Wi-Fi Maintenance, 3/3/16 7AM

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We will be performing Wi-Fi upgrades at BWRC on Thursday morning to address a critical security vulnerability and also to upgrade the access points. The wireless network will be unavailable during this time and should be fully operational by 8AM.

The new access points will support 802.11ac with 80MHz channels, and will also provide increased coverage and signal performance.

If you have any questions about either of these upgrades, please email networks@eecs.berkeley.edu.
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Wireless Maintenance – All Locations, 1/13/16

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We are recalibrating the system which determines wireless AP transmit power. The procedure requires us to reset the radios several times, which will cause any client machines to disconnect.

We will make the changes separately on each frequency band to attempt to reduce interruptions to the wireless service.
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Wi-Fi Maintenance Outage, Fri. Jan. 8th 11PM

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There will be a brief outage of the wireless networks tonight at 11PM while we upgrade the software on the switches. This upgrade will affect the following locations:

* Sutarjda Dai Hall, all floors, including Nanolab
* Cory Hall, first floor
* Soda Hall, third floor north side and entire sixth floor

During the upgrade, you may notice wireless access points blinking on and off repeatedly; this is expected.

The total outage is expected to last for less than ten minutes. If you have any questions, please email help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
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Wireless network maintenance Thurs. Jan 7 11PM

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There will be a brief outage of the wireless networks in Soda and Cory Hall tonight at 11PM while we upgrade the software on the switches.

During the upgrade, you may notice wireless access points blinking on and off repeatedly; this is expected.

The total outage is expected to last for less than ten minutes. If you have any questions, please email help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
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Network Maintenance Outage, Tuesday 12/8 9PM

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There will be maintenance outages of the Soda and Sutardja Dai Hall networks on Tuesday, December 8th at 9PM in order to apply a vendor-suggested software update to the main routers for those buildings. The update is intended to fix a bug regarding in-band SSH management of the routers. The wired and wireless networks in each building will be unavailable while the update is being applied.

A similar upgrade was performed in Cory Hall on November 17th with no issues.

Each outage is expected to last for less than ten minutes. Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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Cory Hall Network Maintenance Outage, Tues. 11/17 9PM

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There will be a maintenance outage of the Cory Hall network on Tuesday, November 17th at 9PM in order to apply a vendor-suggested software update to the building router. The update is intended to fix a bug regarding in-band SSH management of the router.

If this update is successful, we will be performing a similar process in Soda and Sutardja Dai Halls in the near future.

The outage is expected to last for less than ten minutes. Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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