The Airbears wireless network will be down for less than 30 mins for replacing the hardware. The downtime will start at 12:20am today. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
Calendar Service Update
The Calendar web client is now mostly functioning. There are lingering issues with the room reservation system at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/roomsched.shtml
Due to various technical reasons, the service hosting the web client has changed. If you log in to the web client through the following URL
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar
Then you need to make no changes, and you’ll be redirected properly. However, if you have the calendar login page bookmarked, and are trying to reach something that looks like…
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=web
Or anything with “ocas.fcgi” listed in it, you should either use the “/calendar” URL, or change the host portion of the ocas-bin URL to
use port 8081, a la…
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu:8081/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=web
If none of the above made any sense to you, your existing bookmark
doesn’t work, but http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar works, then
change your existing bookmark to www.eecs.berkeley.edu/calendar; or just go there, delete your existing bookmark, and bookmark the new page.
There is an intermittent problem where the infamous “Message Catalog Unavailable” error messages seem to be occuring more frequently than before. I’m waiting on feedback from Oracle.
EECS Calendar Service Still Problematic
The Calendar web client is continuing to fail. A number of you may have noticed various errors today with the local client, such as being unable to schedule new meetings and recurring meeting notifications. This was unforseen, and was due to our running a diagnostic program, which took 3+ hours to complete. The diagnostic has finished, and we are waiting for information from Oracle tech support.
As part of the web client failures, the web-based room reservation forms at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/roomsched.shtml are currently non-functional. They will continue to be down until this problem is resolved.
If you are still unable to schedule new meetings, or are still receiving repeated pop-up reminders about a pending meeting, please quit and restart your calendar client. If the problem persists, please send mail to idsg@eecs.berkeley.edu. Thanks for your patience.
IRIS Website Downtime, Sunday Apr 23, 9pm
I will be taking our Oracle database down at 9pm on Sunday, April 23 to install the latest security patches. This is a relatively small patch, and the database should probably be back up by 10pm, but I’m scheduling 3 hours because…sometimes these things take longer.
During this time, the Network and Roster query and request forms will be down. All requests for web pages in those areas will be redirected to a page with information on the maintenance.
Send any questions or concerns to img@eecs.
-Rob
[Read more…] about IRIS Website Downtime, Sunday Apr 23, 9pm
EECS Calendar Service Update
The web interface to calendar is currently nonfunctional. The local clients should be working fine. All calendar service will be offline tonight (Thursday 20 April) starting at 8pm.
A variety of software issues have contributed to the calendar service meltdown over the past few days, starting with partial corruption of the server’s RAID array. At this time, the popup error messages that were occuring yesterday should be gone. The web interface, however, is failing to allow users to log in, giving the unhelpful error “You have timed out from your previous session. Please sign in again.”.
To address this, we will be bringing the calendar server down this evening at approximate 8pm to upgrade the server. With luck, the web interface will be up and running by tomorrow morning.
If, right now, you are unable to connect to the calendar server using a local client, please contact tmaher@eecs.berkeley.edu directly.
EECS Calendar Service Interruption
The EECS Department’s Calendar server is currently unavailable. Staff are investigating. We have no uptime estimate at this time.
[Read more…] about EECS Calendar Service Interruption
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2006
******************************************************************** Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2006 Issued: April 11, 2006 Version Number: 1.0 Bulletin: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64680 ********************************************************************
Summary: ======== This advisory contains information about all security updates released this month. It is broken down by security bulletin severity.
Critical Security Bulletins ===========================
MS06-013 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (912812)
- Affected Software: - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 1 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information about these operating systems: - Windows 98 - Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) - Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
MS06-014 - Vulnerability in the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Function Could Allow Code Execution (911562)
- Affected Software: - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 1 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information about these operating systems: - Windows 98 - Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) - Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
MS06-015 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (912812)
- Affected Software: - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 1 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS06-O15 for information about these operating systems: - Windows 98 - Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) - Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Important Security Bulletins ============================
MS06-016 - Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (911567)
- Affected Software: - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 1 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS0X-OYZ for information about these operating systems: - Windows 98 - Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) - Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Moderate Security Bulletins ===========================
MS06-017 - Vulnerability in Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting (917627)
- Affected Software: - Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows XP Service Pack 1 - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Service Pack 1 (Itanium) - Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - Microsoft SharePoint Team Service
- Review the FAQ section of bulletin MS0X-OYZ for information about these operating systems: - Windows 98 - Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) - Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution - Version Number: 1.0
Network Outage
Late this afternoon our core router in Soda Hall had a hard failure on one of the management switch modules. When the router tried to fail over to the backup module, it also, exhibited a failure. I have rebooted the first module and network service has been restored. However, there may still be a problem and we are addressing this now with the vendor. Further outages may occur without warning until we get this resolved. I regret the inconvenience this may cause.
Brief network outages on soda 4th-5th floor 5:30PM-6:30PM
I will replace a new network hardware on Soda 4th floor (soda4b)on Thursday April 13,2006. There will be brief network outages from 5:30PM to 6:00PM.
This will affect users who use wired connection on the east side of 4th floor. Since our wireless network feeds into our switched infrastructure at several locations in Soda, there will also be a couple of brief outages to the wireless network from floors 4-5 as well.
I regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please make your plans accordingly.
HERMES, PRINT, RIS, WINSWW and macserver.eecs offline for patching Apr 12, 2006
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 11, 2006. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the following Wednesday, April 12, 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.