Instructional & Research Information Systems
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 15th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, January 15th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about January 2020 Windows Server PatchingDue to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Monday, December 23 to Wednesday, January 1, reopening on Thursday, January 2, 2020.
All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis.
The IRIS Helpdesk will close early at noon on Friday, December 20, and will reopen on Thursday, January 2. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (510-642-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 2.
[Read more…] about IT Support During Winter 2019 Energy CurtailmentThe certificate used by the EECS-Secure authentication servers (clearpass.eecs.berkeley.edu) has been updated. Wireless devices using EECS-Secure may prompt you to accept the updated certificate before you can reconnect to the network.
Updated certificate files and fingerprints have been published here in case you would like to verify the new certificates or install them on a device.
The Department’s ftp server ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu (aka ftp.cs.berkeley.edu) has been offline since 10am due to a firewall misconfiguration. We expect it to be back online by 12pm.
[Read more…] about ftp.eecs / ftp.cs service interruptionThe departmental authenticating outgoing smtp server gateway.eecs will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 7:15am to 7:45am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 07:15-07:45amcronus one of the departmental DNS, NIS and time servers will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches from 6:45-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS, NIS and time server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches from 7:00-7:15 am.
Though the total scheduled downtime is 6:45am to 7:15am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about cronus and rhea downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 06:45-07:15amThe departmental dhcp server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7:00am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about dhcp server downtime – Tuesday December10, 2019 06:30-07:00amlogin.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for patching and needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about login.eecs downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 06:30-07:00amAs with any major OS release, we recommend a cautious approach, especially where your primary device is concerned. Major releases often bring new issues or bugs, which may take some time for the vendor to address with patches and updates.
We have reports that Mac users who have upgraded to Catalina from a prior version of MacOS (or who have transferred data from a system using a prior version of MacOS) have experienced problems with wireless networking. In particular, users may see no wireless network SSIDs available, and users may be unable to connect to any captive portal wireless network (frequently used at public hotspots).
[Read more…] about Recommendation: Delay Upgrading to MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)