Following up on the work done during the June 13th Soda Hall power outage, we have a similar outage for the second floor of Soda Hall scheduled during Spring Break, to complete (hopefully!) a circuit breaker replacement. As with the last outage, electrical power to the Soda Hall second floor will be down during much of the day on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Critical systems will be down from about 6am until perhaps 5pm.
Of primary note is that the department NetApp fileservers will be down, so any systems that depend on HOME or PROJECT storage will be shutdown or nonfunctional. Services that will be unavailable during the maintenance period include: department webservice (including people.eecs, www2.eecs and all other IRIS-hosted web sites), IRIS account & network forms, login servers (login.eecs, login-mfa.eecs, winterm.eecs), print server print.eecs, and outgoing SMTP server smtp.eecs.
Any systems that remain powered-on but make use of HOME or PROJECT storage may become unresponsive during this time. Rebooting after maintenance is completed is usually recommended.
Services that will remain online and available include: DHCP, EECS Active Directory, EECS LDAP, wired networking, DNS (cronus.eecs), and maillists (lists.eecs), and the main department website eecs.berkeley.edu.
UPDATE
[2025-03-26 | larsrohr ]
This time, the circuit breaker replacement went well, and electrical work was completed ahead of schedule. We began bringing core services back up around noon, and additional services shortly afterward. A few services were delayed by a faulty memory module in one of our VM hosts, but IRIS services should generally be considered restored as of 2pm.
As usual, we recommend rebooting your machine if you are experiencing any issue after this maintenance, and then feel free to contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu if problems continue.
Resolved as of 2025-03-26 2:30pm