IRIS

My apologies for the short notice, but HERMES will be down for patching today, December 22nd, from 4:00p¿5:00p.

Both Thunderbird and Firefox require upgrading.

Due to the Winter Holidays, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Saturday, 12/23/2006 to Tuesday, 01/02/2007.

All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis. We expect full service to resume on January 2nd.

The EECS Department’s Computer Helpdesk will be closed during this time. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (2-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 2nd.

During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers should remain online (imail.eecs, inst.eecs, cory.eecs, mamba.eecs and fileservice.eecs). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor inst@eecs over the break. If you are unable to contact inst@eecs, you can leave a message at 643-6141. Please be aware, though, that staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 2nd.

We recommend that all desktop computers be shutdown during the Energy Curtailment Period. If your Windows computer needs to stay on during the break, we recommend that you check with your system administrator to ensure that Automatic Updates are enabled with the option ‘Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule that I specify’, with a daily update schedule.

Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible, so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As a reminder:

• Instructional Computing Environment: inst@eecs
• Research / Staff Computing Environment: help@eecs

Enjoy your holiday break!

There will be brief wireless network outages on Soda 5th-7th floor at 12:30AM-12:40PM while we reboot network hardware.

This will affect users who use WIRELESS connection on 5th-7th floor of Soda.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please make your plans accordingly.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, Dec 12th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday,
Dec 13, 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.

imap.eecs, the EECS IMAP mailserver, unexpectedly went offline this afternoon shortly after 1:30pm. Staff are investigating the matter, but were unable to rectify the situation remotely, and will need to handle it at the console.

Mail service is expected to resume as normal, with no loss of email, sometime later this evening.
[Read more…] about IMAP mailserver outage, Sunday, Nov 26, 2006

The IRIS website (https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be offline from 12:00pm until 1:00pm on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 as the server hosting it will be undergoing maintenance.

The IRIS roster and network forms will be unavailable during this time as well.

[Read more…] about IRIS website offline Wed, Nov 22, 2006 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) was offline as of about 6:55am this morning, due to a power failure.

As of 9:25am, it appears that service has been restored.

On the 17th, wireless service on the 3rd and 5th floors of Cory Hall will have a momentary outage between 8:30 and 9 AM. After the outage, your programs using TCP connections (remote desktop, secure shell, etc.) will need to be restarted.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The two hours yesterday was not sufficient time to complete patching and
software installation for HERMES. HERMES will again be unavailable
today, Thurs. Nov. 16th from 3:00 – 5:00, to complete patching. Please
be prepared.

On Nov 7 from 05:00-05:30AM, the following EECS wireless network services will be down for maintenance:

EECS-11a WLAN
Guest WLAN

Users may need to re-authenticate to these wireless networks.

The purpose of the maintenance is that the authentication server for these WLANs will need to be upgraded to the latest code in order to fix a major security vulnerability.