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 progressSeptember IRIS Server Patching
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 PatchingAugust IRIS Server Patching
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 PatchingNetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday August 17, 2024
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, 2024Soda and SDH Network Maintenance, Mon. 8/5 8PM
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.
Soda and Cory Network Maintenance, Thurs. 8/1 8PM
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.
BWRC Network Maintenance, Thurs. 7/18 10PM
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.
Soda Hall Network Maintenance, Wed. 7/17 10PM
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.
July IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 9th, 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, July 10th, 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.
On Wednesday, July 10th, 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 July IRIS Server PatchingWeb services upgrade, Friday July 5
IRIS-provided web services will be migrated to new Red Hat 9 servers on Friday, July 5th beginning at 10am. This will affect people.eecs, www2.eecs, and all the project websites hosted by IRIS. This should be transparent to most people, but users of apps.eecs.berkeley.edu might have to upgrade their code due to new versions of the supported languages. These people have been previously contacted.
As usual, please send any questions or concerns to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
| component | Current Version | Upgraded Version after July 5 |
| apache | 2.4.6 | 2.4.57 |
| python | 2.7.5 | 3.9.18 |
| php | 5.4.16 | 8.2.13 |
| perl | 5.16.3 | 5.32.1 |