IRIS

The Department’s web server, www.eecs.berkeley.edu (as well as all other websites that are hosted on that machine) will be unavailable beginning at 5pm on Thursday, April 19. A critical operating system patch has been released from the vendor which requires a reboot. We expect the machine to be back up by 5:15pm.

We apologize for the short notice.
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This morning (Friday, April 13, 2007) at 09:30 a.m. PDT, we will be replacing the batteries for the Soda Hall network center UPS. These batteries failed prematurely as we just replaced them last Sept. We do not anticipate any network equipment downtime. However, this is an alert just in case.
Fred Archibald

At this time, customers will not be able to view their calendars, nor be able to create any new entries.
Calagenda experienced a serious error during it’s regular monthly maintenance on Sunday. The CalAgenda team is working to resolve this problem.

See also http://ucbsystems.org/ for updates on campus systems such as CalAgenda.
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Sometime on Sunday afternoon, a network problem appeared that was mostly confined to Soda Hall but was also apparent in Cory to a lesser degree. Some subnets lost connectivity due to a failure in our core switch. I was able to switch to the backup management module, and service was restored as of about 07:15 this morning. I will be investigating the cause and I regret the inconvenience this caused for some.

The inst.eecs.berkeley.edu web server is down with an apparent hardware failure. It is expected to be working again later today. Updates will follow as repairs progress.

Update:

The web server had a disk failure. We are re-installing it with a new disk. I expect it will be back up by 5pm.

There is an emergency patch released today from Microsoft. HERMES will be patched today, I will reboot at 4:00pm. Please be prepared.

IDSG recommends all Windows host apply this patch ASAP. Patches are available for Windows 2000, Server 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista and Longhorn. x64 bit versions included.

Details, security bulletin and patch are available at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-017.mspx

The patch is also available via Microsoft Update.

Mailing lists and the Jabber service will be briefly unavailable sometime between 5:00p.m. and 5:30p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 2007.

The machine hosting these services will be having its operating system patched and will need to be rebooted. Unavailability shouldn’t last more than a few minutes.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 10th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday, April 11th, 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.

Visual Studio 2005 is now available on winsww.eecs.berkeley.edu. To install you must have administrative privileges on your host. Go to \winsww\sww\public\visual_studio\VS2005

To install Visual Studio run the VS.setup.exe alias.
To install MSDN libraries run the MSDN.setup.exe alias.

The IRIS website has been redesigned!

The new, standards-based design brings with it a clean, usable layout, updated branding, and a nice foundation on which we plan to build some new features.

We hope you like it.

If you have any feedback you’d care to share with us, please e-mail img@eecs.