IRIS

On Friday, August 1st from 6am to 2pm we will be migrating to the new filers
for home directories and project space. This downtime and migration affects the
majority of the users in the department.

All sysadmins have received the technical details necessary to evaluate the
impact on their users and should be contacting you. If you have additional
questions, please contact your system administrator or the department’s help
desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory, 642-7777).

The following services will be affected: coeus, project, argus, sww (not winsww).
[Read more…] about Department Filer Migration

There is a new web interface for the EECS IMAP mail server.

The URL is: https://webmail.eecs.berkeley.edu

This interface has a different look and feel from the old interface. It also allows the user to manage mail filters on the IMAP server. These rules are processed prior to any other rules that are in place, such as the rules on the server that processes SPAM.

Please feel free to try out this interface.

*It is currently in beta*, but will probably be announced as a production service soon.

The old webmail interface will remain at https://imap.eecs.berkeley.edu.

The campus “Minimum Security Standards for Networked
Devices” http://security.berkeley.edu/MinStds
approved software document was updated:

https://security.berkeley.edu/approved.software.html

The approved software document list devices and/or
operating systems that MUST run listed anti-virus
software and host-based firewall software.

Some of the most significant changes in the
approved software document are

Windows Vista must run anti-virus software and host-based firewall.

The campus SNS (System and Network Security) group recommends that Linux/Other UNIX devices run anti-virus software.

Windows 2000 Server must run a host-based firewall (using Windows IPSec).

Windows Server 2008 must run a host-based firewall

IRIS is pleased to announce that storage rates for the 2008–09 fiscal
year have been significantly reduced while the basic disk space
allocation has been greatly increased.

Previously, one’s IMAP account
and coeus home directory each had a 100MB base allocation and usage
over that base was recharged at $1.80/GB/month. The new model
includes a combined allocation of 5GB per person (a 25x increase!)
and usage over that base is recharged at $0.20/GB/month. “Project”
space usage will also reflect the new rate of $0.20/GB/month.

For all the details, please see our [FY 2008–09 rates](/10-services/90-rates/).

These new rates were driven by our recent upgrade of our storage
infrastructure to a fibre channel-based SAN, and the upcoming upgrade
our Network Appliance fileservers later this year. Our IMAP server is
already taking advantage of this new infrastructure which will improve
reliablity and expandability of our mail service.

We hope these new rates will encourage people to take greater
advantage of our storage services.

To check your current usage, visit this web page.

Please send any questions to help@eecs.