IRIS

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

At 08:30 Friday morning there will be a minor outage on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Cory that will only effect a few users for a few minutes while we reset one of the I/O boards on two different switches.
I hope this doesn’t inconvenience anyone. If you are concerned for a partcular machine that may be running an extended process, then let me know the port number and I will check this out for you.

Coeus will be briefly inaccessible on Saturday, June 24th between 11:00 PM and 12:00 AM (midnight). I am expecting the actual downtime to last only a few minutes. NFS users (typically, unix and Linux) should not need to do anything. CIFS users (typically, Windows and MacOS) will see files closed.
If the above schedule is a problem, please contact IDSG.

I will replace a new network hardware at BWRC on Tuesday June 20,2006. There will be brief network outages from 10:00AM to 11:00AM.

This will affect some users who use wired connection. But EECS/Airbears wireless network will still be functioning.

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

On Tuesday, June 20, the calendar service will be going down to run the
database fixer, at approximately 11pm. It should be back online by 5am
Wednesday morning. If this is a severe imposition, please contact me.

Thanks for your continued patience.