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Late this morning we had an unscheduled network outage which appears to be rooted in our firewall. The primary unit stopped passing traffic for an, as yet, unknown reason. However, we were able to manually switch to the back-up firewall and traffic has been restored. We are still investigating the cause of the outage. I regret the inconvenience.

We will reboot the switch(Salp3A) on the 3rd floor of Soda on Wed morning Aug 16, 2006. There will be brief network outages at 7:30AM. It should take less than 5 mins.

This will affect users who use wired connection on the 3rd floor with cable-ids starting with 3A-. Since our wireless network feeds into our switched infrastructure, there will also be a couple of brief outages to the wireless network on the 3rd floor of Soda.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

Today at 5:14 AM, the switch that serves about half of the 5th floor Soda network connections rebooted due to some errors. While the switch is currently up, it is still logging errors. It is very likely that we will need to make emergency repairs this morning and swap out some hardware. This switch also feeds the wireless APs for floors 5-7 in Soda Hall.

We regret and inconvenience this may cause.
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Microsoft released their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 08, 2006.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Monday, August 14, 2006, from 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance at this time as well.
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Shortly before noon today until approximately 12:15, there appeared to be a network outage in EECS. At the moment, nothing seems amiss and we are still investigating as to the possible cause.

Oracle has just released their quarterly critical patch update. This will be installed on the department’s Oracle server this Sunday, July 23, beginning at 9pm PST. This downtime will affect the website https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu and all related applications, including the EECS Network & Roster databases.

Last night (Thursday, Jul 13, 2006) at approximately 10pm, there was a UPS failure in the 290 Soda Hall machine room. The UPS unexpectedly went into bypass mode and dropped power to all major services within EECS. Service was restored at approximately 10:30pm. A new circuit board is on backorder from the UPS vendor.




There is a possibility that some e-mail to the IMAP server was bounced.

We plan to move the gig port connections for BID router on next Wed morning, July 19, 2006 for preparation of Core switch replacement. There
will be brief network outages from 8:00AM to 9:00AM.

This will affect users who use wired connection in the HMMB.

I regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please make your plans accordingly.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 11, 2006.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Thursday, July 13, 2006, 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.

Due to reduced staffing on Monday 3 July, 2006 some IDSG services will not be processed in the usual timely manner.

This will probably only affect new account creation and system activations/updates.

This, of course, will not affect genuine emergencies which will be handled as soon as possible.

Normal service will resume on Wednesday 5 July, 2006.

Thanks for your understanding,

IDSG Staff