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October IRIS Server Patching

October 4, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, October 9th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled)

[Read more…] about October IRIS Server Patching

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: DHCP, Mailing Lists, Print Server, Unix Login Server, WDS, winterm.eecs

New DNS Nameserver: themis.eecs

October 4, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

System administrators in EECS may be familiar with our DNS nameservers cronus and rhea. We now have a new nameserver, physically located in Cory Hall, named themis. If your systems are typical DHCP clients, or you don’t use the EECS wired network, then you should have nothing to change.

We are planning to replace and retire rhea according to the following schedule:

  • Thu Oct 15 — We will update our DHCP configuration, telling Cory Hall DHCP clients to use themis and cronus, and telling other DHCP clients to use cronus and themis.
  • November/December — We will monitor any continued usage of rhea for DNS, and periodically alert system administrators so they can update their systems to use themis instead.
  • early January — We will retire rhea, but will point its name and IP address at cronus.

Filed Under: Highlights, News Services: DNS

2024 Synopsys renewal in progress

September 18, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

If you use Synopsys software on EECS Instructional or research systems, you may be seeing an alert that the current licensing expires on September 25. Staff are already in progress of renewing Synopsys licensing, and our vendor representative is working to get us new license files as soon as possible.

[Read more…] about 2024 Synopsys renewal in progress

Filed Under: News, Resolved Incidents Services: Synopsys Licensing

September IRIS Server Patching

September 6, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, September 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

[Read more…] about September IRIS Server Patching

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: DHCP, Mailing Lists, Print Server, Unix Login Server, WDS, winterm.eecs

August IRIS Server Patching

August 9, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 13th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

Updates to our VMware servers on Tuesday night may mean brief service interruptions to various IRIS services hosted on virtual machines.

On Wednesday, August 14th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

[Read more…] about August IRIS Server Patching

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: DHCP, Mailing Lists, Print Server, Unix Login Server, WDS, winterm.eecs

NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday August 17, 2024

August 7, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

We are scheduling a NetApp ONTAP upgrade, to apply a necessary update to our NetApp fileserver, from 8am to 12pm on Saturday, August 17, 2024.

All Home directories and Project shares (CIFS/SMB and NFS) may experience disconnection during the update that may cause data loss on active, open files.  Please close your open files and save them before Saturday morning. Services (e.g. webservice) that depend on this storage will also be temporarily down or unresponsive.

When maintenance is completed, NFS clients should automatically resume normal operation, but a reboot should help if they don’t. CIFS clients (such as Windows and MacOS) may need to remount filesystems, or simply be rebooted.

[Read more…] about NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday August 17, 2024

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: ACG Web/Database Applications, Department Webservice, Home Directory Storage, Personal Web Pages, Project Storage, Unix Login Server

Soda and SDH Network Maintenance, Mon. 8/5 8PM

August 5, 2024 by Derek Calderon

Tonight at 8PM, we will be performing maintenance on the network path between Soda Hall and Sutardja Dai Hall. Some Private Networks in Sutardja Dai will experience a brief interruption, but we do not expect this maintenance to affect any production networks (i.e. the general use wired and wireless networks). We will update this post when the work is complete, or if there is an unforeseen impact to the production networks.

Update 8:17PM: This work has been completed without any major network disruptions. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any ongoing issues.

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Wired Networking

Soda and Cory Network Maintenance, Thurs. 8/1 8PM

August 1, 2024 by Derek Calderon

Tonight at 8PM, we will be performing maintenance on the network path between Soda Hall and Cory Hall. Some Private Networks in Cory Hall will experience a brief interruption, but we do not expect this maintenance to affect any production networks (i.e. the general use wired and wireless networks). We will update this post when the work is complete, or if there is an unforeseen impact to the production networks.

Update 8:52PM: This work has been completed without major impact and all networks are online. Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any issues.

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Wired Networking

BWRC Network Maintenance, Thurs. 7/18 10PM

July 16, 2024 by Derek Calderon

At 10PM on Thursday, July 18th, we will be performing firmware upgrades on various BWRC network devices in order to address a bug in the current version.

All wired and wireless networks at BWRC will be offline for approximately 5-15 minutes during the upgrade.

Update 7/18 22:12: The upgrades have been completed and all networks are back online. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any ongoing issues.

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Wired Networking, Wireless Networking

Soda Hall Network Maintenance, Wed. 7/17 10PM

July 16, 2024 by Derek Calderon

At 10PM on Wednesday, July 17th, we will be performing firmware upgrades on various Soda Hall network devices in order to address a bug in the current version.

All wired and wireless networks in Soda Hall, except for those on the first and second floors and in machine room 340, will be offline for approximately 5-15 minutes during the upgrade.

Update 7/17 22:12: This work is complete and all networks are back online. Please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you notice any ongoing issues.

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Wired Networking, Wireless Networking

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