Ongoing

Any ongoing service-related issues are listed in this category.

Jacobs Hall Network Maintenance, Tue. 8/12 10PM – Wed. 8/13 7:30AM

August 8, 2025 by Derek Calderon

We will be performing Jacobs Hall network maintenance overnight from Tuesday, August 12th at 10PM to Wednesday, August 13th at 7:30AM. This maintenance is to replace the existing end-of-life router and switches with newer campus standard devices.

All wired and wireless networks in Jacobs Hall will be unavailable between 10PM Tuesday night and 7:30AM Wednesday morning. We expect all networks to be back online by 7:30AM.

Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

August IRIS Server Patching

August 8, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Thursday, August 14th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from about 9am to 9:30am (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).