Staff are investigating widespread reports that NFS-exported filesystems from the department fileserver became no longer accessible, as of yesterday evening. This affects both home directories and project storage shares.
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On the week of October 30th, Berkeley IT will be performing wi-fi maintenance in Blum Hall and the Calvin Lab. This maintenance will begin on Monday 10/30 and is expected to take five (5) business days. The purpose of this work is to upgrade existing wireless APs as well as increase coverage by adding APs in more locations.
There will be localized disruptions to wi-fi service as the APs are swapped out, but the buildings as a whole are expected to stay online throughout.
Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions about this work.
October IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, October 11th, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Tuesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, October 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
[Read more…] about October IRIS Server PatchingEECS Network Maintenance, Sat. 10/7 12-1PM
This Saturday, October 7th, between 12 and 1PM, we will be performing network maintenance in our primary server room. No interruption is expected, but there is a possibility of disruption to some IRIS services if things do not go as planned.
Update 12:40: This maintenance was completed without any impact to network connectivity. Please email help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions.
Campus Wi-Fi Maintenance, Oct 2-3 11PM-7AM
Overnight between Mon 10/2 11PM and Tues 10/3 7AM, campus will be upgrading the wi-fi infrastructure serving the north side of campus. Wi-fi in each building will be unavailable for 30-60 minutes sometime during this window.
For detailed information and future updates, please see this status post:
https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/event/190449/
EECS Networks Unstable, 9/26 Early Morning
EECS Networks were unstable from 1AM to 7:44AM due to an apparent issue on the 4th floor of Soda Hall. The 4th floor has been isolated in order to stabilize the wider network, and we are now assessing the situation in that area.
Border Firewall Maintenance, Sep. 26 and 28 5-7AM
On Tuesday Sep. 26 and Thursday Sep. 28, between 5 and 7AM, bIT will be performing maintenance on the hardware which backs the EECS and BWRC border firewalls. During these two two-hour periods, there may be some loss of network traffic entering and leaving the EECS networks.
See the below bIT status posts for updates, as this page will not be updated.
Tues. Sep. 26 5AM – 7AM: https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/event/190263/
Thur. Sep. 28 5AM – 7AM: https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/event/190264/
Please email us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions about how this maintenance will affect EECS networks.
September Windows Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 12th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 13th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, September 13th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about September Windows Server PatchingVarious Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm. login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 10:30pm to 11pm. Other Linux hosts (e.g. DNS servers cronus and rhea, and SMTP server gateway.eecs) may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting approximately 6-7pm.
We expect actual downtimes to be shorter than scheduled.
[Read more…] about Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday, August 9, 2023August Windows Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 8th, 2023. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 9th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, August 9th, depending on additional software updates.
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