Instructional & Research Information Systems
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5:30pm Thursday, Oct 14th, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5:30pm and 6:30pm.
* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
[Read more…] about Linux Server Patching, Oct 14 5:30pmThe IRIS Roster (account) and Network applications, and the EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be unavailable tonight from 6pm to approximately 6:30pm for routine maintenance.
[Read more…] about IRIS applications & Mailing Lists maintenance Aug 12, 6pmThe EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be briefly down for maintenance tonight, Wednesday March 3, 2021, beginning at 6pm.
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require a system restart. During this maintenance window, the web interface will be inaccessible, and any mail sent to a mailing list will be temporarily delayed until the server resumes operation. We anticipate an outage of no more than 30 minutes but some extra time is being scheduled in case of unforeseen problems.
As usual, please send any questions to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
[Read more…] about Mailing List Server maintenance, Wednesday March 3, 6pm-7pmThe Department’s Mailing List server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be down for maintenance on Wednesday May 13, 2020, beginning at 6pm, for up to one hour. During this time incoming messages will be held for delivery; no mail will be lost, but the web interface will be inaccessible. During this maintenance, operating system patches will be installed, and the back-end database for this service will be migrated to a newer server.
[Read more…] about EECS Mailing List Server downtime, May 13 6p-7pIRIS has offered a jabber/XMPP server for a number of years, but usage has dropped to zero as people have migrated to other options. When the current SSL certificate expires March 27, 2020, we do not plan to renew it, and this service will be retired.
As a replacement for this service, we recommend Google Hangouts Chat or Hangouts Meet.
Following the lead of the campus, Google, and other industry leaders, IRIS will be ending support for the older security protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on the department web servers (e.g. people.eecs.berkeley.edu, www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu, and any IRIS-hosted web site) on March 24, 2020. If you are using a modern web browser, you will not notice any changes.
To: System Administrators of Unix / Linux devices
Subject: Retirement of IRIS NIS service in EECS
IRIS NIS (Network Information Services) allows Unix computers to look up IRIS usernames, groups, passwords and other information from IRIS NIS servers.
Dating back to before the creation of IRIS, NIS service has been supported in the EECS Department. Now, IRIS provides the LDAP protocol as a replacement for NIS. This is now our supported service for distributing Unix username, password and group data. IRIS LDAP service features multiple redundant servers, and is updated in real-time with user account data.
[Read more…] about NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 19, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience outages of 30 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.
The Department’s ftp server ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu (aka ftp.cs.berkeley.edu) has been offline since 10am due to a firewall misconfiguration. We expect it to be back online by 12pm.
[Read more…] about ftp.eecs / ftp.cs service interruption