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The 290 machine room will be shut down on Wednesday, May 31st, between 7 and 9 AM.

We need to do maintenance on the UPS in the machine room. Hopefully, most of the work can be done in the bypass mode, however, there will definitely be a point when we need to shut the UPS down, losing most of the power in the room. Note that while the power is turned off, ALL EECS network services will be unavailable. This includes project, coeus, imap, and wired and wireless internet access.

We will try to keep the downtime to the minimum. I apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience.

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EECS Helpdesk Summer Hours

395 Cory Hall

Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm

313 Soda Hall

The Soda Hall helpdesk is closed for the summer.

The EECS Helpdesk in 313 Soda Hall will be closed until the beginning of the 2006 Fall semester. This is due to the reduction in staff and decreased demand during the summer months.

The Helpdesk in 395 Cory hall will continue to operate during normal business hours.

The DNS name coeus.Berkeley.EDU has been a nickname for our
Network Appliance fileserver coeus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU.

We are going to give up the coeus.Berkeley.EDU DNS nickname so
as to allow the campus Sponsored Projects Office to use it
for a campus-level information system beginning May 23, 2006.

Mathematica 5.2 for the Intel Macintosh is now available at smb://macsww.eecs.berkeley.edu/macsww/public/Intel/Mathematica

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 09, 2006. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the following Wednesday, May 10, 2006, from 3:00p?5:00p.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

The Airbears wireless network will be down for less than 30 mins for replacing the hardware. The downtime will start at 12:20am today. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

The Calendar web client is now mostly functioning. There are lingering issues with the room reservation system at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/roomsched.shtml

Due to various technical reasons, the service hosting the web client has changed. If you log in to the web client through the following URL

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar

Then you need to make no changes, and you’ll be redirected properly. However, if you have the calendar login page bookmarked, and are trying to reach something that looks like…

https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=web

Or anything with “ocas.fcgi” listed in it, you should either use the “/calendar” URL, or change the host portion of the ocas-bin URL to
use port 8081, a la…

https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu:8081/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=web

If none of the above made any sense to you, your existing bookmark
doesn’t work, but http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar works, then
change your existing bookmark to www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar; or just go there, delete your existing bookmark, and bookmark the new page.

There is an intermittent problem where the infamous “Message Catalog Unavailable” error messages seem to be occuring more frequently than before. I’m waiting on feedback from Oracle.

The Calendar web client is continuing to fail. A number of you may have noticed various errors today with the local client, such as being unable to schedule new meetings and recurring meeting notifications. This was unforseen, and was due to our running a diagnostic program, which took 3+ hours to complete. The diagnostic has finished, and we are waiting for information from Oracle tech support.

As part of the web client failures, the web-based room reservation forms at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/roomsched.shtml are currently non-functional. They will continue to be down until this problem is resolved.

If you are still unable to schedule new meetings, or are still receiving repeated pop-up reminders about a pending meeting, please quit and restart your calendar client. If the problem persists, please send mail to idsg@eecs.berkeley.edu. Thanks for your patience.

I will be taking our Oracle database down at 9pm on Sunday, April 23 to install the latest security patches. This is a relatively small patch, and the database should probably be back up by 10pm, but I’m scheduling 3 hours because…sometimes these things take longer.

During this time, the Network and Roster query and request forms will be down. All requests for web pages in those areas will be redirected to a page with information on the maintenance.

Send any questions or concerns to img@eecs.

-Rob

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