Lars Rohrbach

November 2018 Windows Server Patching

November 13, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 13th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 14th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, November 14th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-11-14 06:30:00

October 2018 Windows Server Patching

October 9, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 9th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 10th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, October 10th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-10-10 07:00:00

September 2018 Windows Server Patching

September 11, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 12th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, September 12th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-09-12 07:00:00

August 2018 Windows Server Patching

August 14, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 15th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, August 15th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-08-15 07:00:00

New login.eecs, Linux general login server

August 13, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

We are pleased to announce the new version of
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, a Linux general login server running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7 (RHEL 7).
You can begin using it immediately with the name login2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, and
as of Thursday August 16, 2018, the name login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will
refer to the same system.

The ECDSA ssh key fingerprint is
SHA256:v67SnYH5INkysyMKwTF3FVsNaFR5jd4Z+56qdAitH6w
MD5:2b:92:69:db:ca:b2:5c:62:d3:c9:ab:5b:32:6a:72:0b

The RSA ssh key fingerprint for this new server is
MD5:d8:d6:9d:60:9b:3b:75:30:5f:b8:62:f1:cd:7c:75:86
SHA256:mrMVQ0vjrNwNNH0CskYDklv7HT9ApV/gD+orHgV/tV

This new Linux general login server uses ssh keys or
one’s IRIS LDAP (EECS Windows Active Directory)
credentials for authentication.

Any binaries in your home directory or project space
that you used on the previous Solaris 10x86_64 login.eecs
will need to be recompiled to work on this new server.

Like its predecessor, this new login server is a general purpose server. It is not
meant to be used for running cpu-intensive jobs. It is not meant
to provide any remote services besides ssh logins. It is a
resource shared by other users; please respect your colleagues.

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will become a DNS nickname for the
new general login server login2.EECS.Berkeley.EDU on
Thursday, August 16, 2018. The old Solaris server can be reached using
the name login-old.EECS.Berkeley.EDU until July 1, 2019, providing that
the hardware and software lasts that long.

Please contact
the IRIS help desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory Mon-Fri 9:30am-5pm,
642-7777) if you have any questions or comments.

July 2018 Windows Server Patching

July 8, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 10th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 11th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, July 11th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-07-11 07:00:00

June 2018 Windows Server Patching

June 12, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 12th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 13th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, June 13th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-06-13 07:00:00

May 2018 Windows Server Patching

May 8, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 8th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 9th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, May 9th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-05-09 07:30:00

April 2018 Windows Server Patching

April 10, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 10th, 2018.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 11th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, April 11th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2018-04-11 07:35:00

Network slowness, dropped packets

April 2, 2018 by Lars Rohrbach

Staff are investigating widespread reports of network slowness and dropped packets.

Network traffic solely within EECS networks appears to be fine, but network traffic traveling past the EECS border to campus or beyond is incurring significant packet loss. It is unclear at this time whether the problem exists on the EECS side or the campus side.

We will update this news item with more information as it becomes available.
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