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EECS Wireless Maintenance: Aug 19, 6:00AM

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On Wed, Aug 19, we will be doing major upgrades to some of our wireless switches. This work will start at 6:00am to 8:00am. Users except BWRC will experience some outages. We expect that some of services will start coming back up in about 30 mins at varied locations. These upgrades are providing for the continuing reliability of the wireless infrastructure services.

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EECS Web Servers Maintenance, Aug 11, 9pm

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New versions of Apache and mod_ssl will be installed tonight, August 11, 2009, on the following servers:

* www.eecs.berkeley.edu
* www.cs.berkeley.edu
* lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
* iris.eecs.berkeley.edu


This will require a quick restart of each web server. Brief outages (less than 5 minutes) will be seen between 9:00pm and 9:30pm.

Resolved as of 2009-08-11 22:00:00

August 2009 Windows Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 12th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, August 12th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-08-12 09:00:00

argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU end of general login service

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General login service on argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will end Tuesday September 8, 2009.

Please migrate to using login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, the new Unix general login server running Solaris 10 x86_64, before then.

Questions, comments and requests may be directed to the IRIS help desk.

See

for more information.

/var/mail service ending on argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

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As originally planned back in 2005, email service
for people using mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will
end Monday August 10, 2009.

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will no longer accept
incoming email for members of the IRIS community.

mailspools from mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU will
no longer be available on argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
in /var/mail

July 2009 Microsoft out of band patching

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Microsoft is releasing critical patches for IE out of band. Production servers will be down for patching.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 29th, at 3:00 am.

Further reading is available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-034.mspx

Resolved as of 2009-07-29 11:14:00

IRIS website offline unexpectedly

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The IRIS website went offline unexpectedly around 11:06pm Friday, July 17th. I was trying to debug a problem with the firewall when all access to the internet was interrupted.

Service was restored around midnight.

My apologies for the outage.

Resolved as of 2009-07-18 00:00:00