We will be upgrading the main Sutardja Dai Hall router at 6:30AM on Thurs. 5/18 to address a firmware defect. The upgrade has already been performed successfully in Soda Hall. All networks in SDH will be offline for 5-10 minutes while the router reboots.
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Cory Hall Router Upgrade, 5/17/17
We will be upgrading the main Cory Hall router at 6:30AM on Wed. 5/17 to address a firmware defect. The upgrade has already been performed successfully in Soda Hall. Outage is expected to last 5-10 minutes while the router reboots.
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Brief outages to various IRIS services, May 10, 6pm-7pm
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, May 10, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
* Personal and Project web services (people.eecs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)
* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department wiki service (wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
* Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* IRIS website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Personal and Project web services (people.eecs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)
* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department wiki service (wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
* Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* IRIS website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Resolved as of 2017-05-10 18:15:00
May 2017 Windows Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 9th, 2017.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 10th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, May 10th, depending on additional software updates.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 10th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, May 10th, depending on additional software updates.
Resolved as of 2017-05-10 07:00:00
Soda 5F Wi-Fi Outage 5/4/17
Half of the wireless APs in 5th floor Soda were offline due to a failure of the PoE switch. Issue has been worked around and switch will be replaced. Network should be fully available at this time.
Resolved as of 2017-05-04 14:10:00
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 – Google Drive Spam / Phishing Message
documents the current “Google Drive Spam / Phishing Message”
incidents.
That web pages states –
At approximately 11:35am this morning, users across campus started receiving email notifications saying that someone has shared a document with them on Google Drive.
This issue is under investigation by Google and is not isolated to UC Berkeley.
If you received any of these messages, do not click on the link, and delete the email.
login.eecs downtime – Wednesday May 3, 2017 06:30-08:00am
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for patching and needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some Oracle patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 8am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
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Soda Aggregation Router Upgrade, 5/2/17
We will be performing a software upgrade of the Soda Hall aggregation router at 6:30 AM on Tuesday, May 2nd. Wired and wireless networks in Soda Hall will be unavailable for 5-10 minutes while the router reboots. BWRC will also be cut off from the outside world during this time as its uplink is dependent on this router.
The Millennium research network will not be affected.
This upgrade is being performed to resolve certain bugs in the current software version so that we can move forward with our early-stage IPV6 deployment, which is currently targeted for this summer.
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EECS Network Outage being investigated
An unplanned network outage, affecting both wired and wireless networks within EECS, is being investigated by staff. At the time of this writing, the scope is unknown.
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dhcp server downtime Tuesday April 18, 2017 07:00-07:30am
The departmental dhcp server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 7:00am to 7:30am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
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