Instructional & Research Information Systems
The Department’s web server was experiencing some trouble communicating with the Oracle Calendar server, and was restarted several times today between 3pm and 5pm. Users may have noticed the web server was occasionally unresponsive during this period.
We believe it is stable for now. We will be making some configuration changes in the next few days to isolate the main server from the Oracle calendar processes to prevent such interruptions in the future.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Oracle has just released their quarterly patch update, which contains fixes for some “critical” vulnerabilities. We will be taking our Oracle installation down on Thursday, Oct 20 at 5:30pm for patching. This is a very large patch and could take several hours to install, so I am scheduling 4.5 hours of downtime. I am hoping it will not take that long, but please do not plan on having access to the network database before 10pm Thursday.
This will affect all forms that are normally available on the IRIS network page.
Please send any questions to IMG.
-Rob
by IRIS Staff
This coming Wednesday, 19 October 2005, from 6:00am to 8:00am, CNS will
be upgrading inr-201, one of two core routers in the campus network.
The other core router is inr-202. Inr-201 and inr-202 are
redundant routers, so the majority of campus network service will not be affected. However, the campus VPN service and EECS VPN service are attached to inr-201 only and will be out of service during the maintenance.
Note: This maintenance will not affect the VPN serving the OPTRS application.
by IRIS Staff
The old print server will be going down for good on the morning of Monday, October 23rd. If you have print queues on your client pointing to PRINT2 instead of PRINT, you will notice the change. Please make sure all your print queues are pointing to print.
by IRIS Staff
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Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2005
Issued: October 11, 2005
Version Number: 1.0
Bulletin: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54789
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Security patches defined by Microsoft as “critical” or “important”
MUST be applied within 10 business days of notification. Should there
be active exploits, the time will be adjusted and users will be
informed appropriately. Hosts unpatched after the defined time are
subject to scanning and removal from the EECS network as per campus
IT security policies (http://socrates.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/).
Patching is sometimes dependent on the service pack level of the
Microsoft OS, and installed applications, please read requirements
carefully.
Critical Security Bulletins
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MS05-050 – Vulnerability in DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code
Execution (904706)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
MS05-051 – Vulnerabilities in MSDTC and COM+ Could Allow Remote
Code Execution (902400)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
MS05-052 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (896688)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Important Security Bulletins
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MS05-046 – Vulnerability in the Client Services for Netware Could
Allow Remote Code Execution (899589)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
MS05-047 – Vulnerability in Plug and Play Could Allow Remote Code
Execution and Local Elevation of Privilege (905749)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
MS05-048 – Vulnerability in the Microsoft Collaboration Objects
Could Allow Remote Code Execution (907245)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
2000 Post-Service Pack 3 Update Rollup of August 2004
MS05-049 – Vulnerabilities in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code
Execution (900725)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
Moderate Security Bulletins
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MS05-044 – Vulnerability in the Windows FTP Client Could Allow File
Transfer Location and Tampering (905495)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
MS05-045 – Vulnerability in Network Connection Manager Could Allow
Denial of Service (905414)
Impact: Remote Code Execution
Affected Software:
[Read more…] about Microsoft Releases Security Patches for the Month
by IRIS Staff
For detailed agenda and times, please see the attached file. Please register thru the web site listed in the attached file (http://www.suneventreg.com/cgi-bin/pup_registration.pl?EventID=639).
Attachment: UniversitySunDayBerkeleyInvitation.pdf
by IRIS Staff
A new link has been posted on the IRIS MAC FAQS, with instructions on a work around to access the mac server. It can be found here:
https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/15-faq/12-mac/EECSDomain.html#macserver
by IRIS Staff
We are having a problem with a network switch on the 5th floor of Cory. Some wired connections may see poor connectivity. Wireless nodes in the north east section of the 5th floor are also affected. We are investigating now.
[Read more…] about 5th Floor Cory Network
by IRIS Staff
In an effort to keep the list of software available on WINSWW current, IDSG will be removing some of the packages currently published to the domain
(i.e. they appear in “Add/Remove Programs”) that no longer exist. IDSG plans
to do this on Monday, Oct 10, 2005 in the afternoon.
This procedure will not uninstall any software from any machines, it
will just prevent nonexistent software from being available for future
installation attempts. Packages removed in this manner will be
replaced with current versions shortly (if they haven’t been already).
The EECS Exchange service on FONTUS is currently unavailable, as a result of some earlier trouble with one of the Windows domain controllers. Staff are currently working on the problem, but we do not yet have an estimate of when service will be restored.
The problem lies with the communication between the Exchange server and the Global Catalog server. There is no problem with FONTUS itself, and no mail should be lost.
[Read more…] about Exchange Server unavailable