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Jabber, Mailing Lists, Wikis down tonight 11pm

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The [department’s mailing list server](https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu), [wiki server](https://wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu) and jabber/xmpp server will each be briefly unavailable tonight, January 29th, between 11pm and midnight.

An important security patch has been released which must be applied as soon as possible. We apologize for the short notice on this downtime.

Resolved as of 2015-01-29 23:37:00

IRIS website unplanned outage earlier today

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The [IRIS website](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu) was unreachable Dec 29th from around 2am until around 4pm. A change in configuration was made at 2am to put move all departmental websites behind a load-balancer. A misconfiguration in the balancer was preventing SSL connections from working.

The misconfiguration has been fixed and the site is functioning normally again. My apologies for the inconvenience.



Resolved as of 2014-12-29 15:50:00

IRIS Website Maintenance, Sunday Dec 14

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The [IRIS website](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/) will be unavailable from 8am to 10am on Sunday, December 14th. This includes the Roster and Network registration applications.

The Oracle database that drives our site will be down for patching during this time.

Resolved as of 2014-12-14 09:15:00

Mailing List & Jabber Downtime, Monday 6pm

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The Department’s database server will be patched and rebooted Monday, November 17th at 6pm. Total downtime is expected to be less than 15 minutes. Applications that depend on this database will be down during this time. This includes our Jabber/XMPP server, jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu and our mailing list server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu.

Mail sent to lists.eecs during this time will be held for later delivery. Delivery will be delayed but no mail will be lost.

Resolved as of 2014-11-17 18:03:00

apps.eecs, wiki.eecs downtime Friday 8am

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The server hosting apps.eecs.berkeley,edu, wik.eecs.berkeley.edu and some other project websites[*] will be rebooted Friday, October 17th 2014 between 8am and 9am. Total downtime should be around 5 to 10 minutes.

This server is experiencing poor network performance. This reboot will be to reconfigure the virtual machine with a new network driver which has shown significantly better performance in our testing. Current bandwith to our NFS server is lmited to around 1.2 MB/s. In testing with the new driver, we are getting around 25 MB/s.

As usual, please send any questions or comments to the IRIS helpdesk at help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

[*] The full list of affected websites is:

  • bjc.berkeley.edu
  • bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • csillustrated.berkeley.edu
  • leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • snap.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu

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PHP upgrade on apps.eecs, Wednesday Sep 3

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We have had numerous requests to upgrade PHP on apps.eecs to a newer version. Version 5.3 is available for this operating system and, barring any complaints, will be installed Wednesday, September 3rd beginning at 5pm. The server will be briefly restarted between 5pm and 6pm to complete the installation. This will affect the web hosts:

  • apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bjc.berkeley.edu
  • bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • csillustrated.berkeley.edu
  • leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • snap.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu

If you manage content on any of these hosts, please check your scripts for compatibility with PHP 5.3. The following references may be helpful

  • http://php.net/manual/en/migration52.php
  • http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.php
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9587767/upgrading-from-php-5-1-to-php-5-3

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Jabber Server Maintenance, July 1 6pm

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The Department’s jabber/xmpp server jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu will be upgraded to the [latest release of Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/changelog.html) on Tuesday July 1, 2014 beginning at 6pm. The server will be shut down at 6pm and should be back up no later than 6:15pm.

Resolved as of 2014-07-01 18:05:00

Mail List, Web Server maintenance, June 30 6pm

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The Department’s mailing list server (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu) and web servers (www.eecs.berkeley.edu, apps.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be patched and rebooted tonight, June 30 2014, at 6pm. Downtime is expected to be less than 10 minutes.

During this outage the web interfaces will be unavailable, and incoming and outgoing mail will be temporarily delayed. No mail will be lost.
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Many IRIS Services Down for Patching, 6pm Tonight

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Another [OpenSSL bug was announced today](http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt), so many IRIS services will be briefly down for patching tonight starting at 6pm. This includes www.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, jabber.eecs, and apps.eecs. Each service will be down for a few minutes between 6pm and 7pm tonight, June 5, 2014.

Resolved as of 2014-06-05 21:09:00