IRIS

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.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 14th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday, November 15th, 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.

There was a CIFS failure with Coeus and Project domains earlier today, preventing people from accessing their home directories. Some may have interpreted this as a network problem. These issues appear to have been resolved now.

4th floor Cory may be experiencing some network problems at the moment. Outage includes some but not all wired and wireless ports. Network admin is working on resolving this problem; excuse the temporary inconvenience.
[Read more…] about 4th floor Cory – Network down

We just had a software failure on the EECS core router for Cory Hall. I had to fail it over to the back-up management module. The Cory Hall (and BWRC) networks were down for a couple of minutes. I regret the inconvenience this may have caused. We are investigating this with the router vendor.

The EESWW server, cad.eecs, provides /usr/eesww fileservice to Unix/Linux machines (primarily Solaris machines) throughout the department. EESWW includes tools such as cadence and hspice.

cad.eecs will be offline for maintenance on Thursday, Nov 2nd, from about 9am until noon. We will be replacing a failing disk, and upgrading the operating system.

On Oct 31st from 07:00-07:30AM, 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 to install a new authentication server for these WLANs.

A new feature for the EECS-11a WLAN is that users will now be able to authenticate with either their LDAP password or their Windows password.

All other wireless services will not be affected.

On Wed Oct. 25, 2006, we will reboot a switch. There may be brief network interruption from 5:00PM to 5:30PM.

This may affect people using the EECS windows domain and SMB connections to project and coeus.

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

WinSWW was unexpectedly rebooted at 12:19 pm today. IDSG apologizes for the lack of notice.