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gateway.eecs maintenance Wednesday September 7, 2016 06:30 to 07:00am

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Outgoing stmp service via gateway.eecs will not be available during scheduled maintenance on gateway.eecs beginning Wednesday September 7, 2013 06:30

Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7am, we expect actual downtime to be less.

A new SSL certificate with different intermediate SSL certificates is being installed.
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Brief outages to various IRIS services, Sep 1, 6pm-7pm

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Routine RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Thursday, September 1, 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)
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Emergency Reboot, Nanolab 3/4 Switch 8/22/16

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We will be performing an emergency reboot of the switch which provides service to the third/fourth floors of the Sutardja Dai Nanolab at 12:15 PM today, in order to clear some bad state left over from this weekend’s upgrades. The third and fourth floors of the Nanolab will be without network connectivity for approximately five minutes.
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Access Switch Upgrades, Sat-Sun 8/20-21

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At the suggestion of our vendor, we will be upgrading various access switches to the latest supported software version. This will affect wired and wireless clients in Soda, Cory, and Sutardja Dai Halls, and wireless users in Blum Hall.

The first set of these upgrades will take place Saturday night at 10PM and will occur in waves. We are upgrading sixteen switches in four waves and expect to be done by 11:30.

The second will take place on Sunday night at 10PM, will affect a smaller group of switches, and should be done by 10:30.

Brief network interruptions (on the order of five minutes) are expected for users in these locations while switches reboot. Most locations will experience a single interruption, but some will require two. Where possible, we will stagger reboots in an attempt to maintain Wi-Fi coverage.
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Border Firewall Upgrade, Sat. 7/30 3-5 PM

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We will be performing a software upgrade of our border firewalls at 3PM on this Saturday, July 30th. The maintenance window is scheduled for 3-5 PM, but we expect it will take less time. This is a direly needed upgrade, as the code in production is nearing its tenth birthday.

Per the vendor, no service interruptions are expected, but short outages of our Internet connection are possible. All traffic internal to the EECS network will be unaffected. The Millennium research network resides outside of the firewall, which means that traffic between Millennium and the Internet will not be affected, but traffic between Millennium and the EECS network may be.

We understand this time may be inconvenient for some members of the community, but it was chosen due to staff and project management constraints. If you have a critical issue with this timing, please contact us at help@eecs.berkeley.edu and we can attempt to accommodate you.

This maintenance window is for the first of two needed firewall upgrades. If the first goes well and we are confident in the system’s stability, we will perform both upgrades on Saturday afternoon. If we are unable to do so, there will be a second upgrade window occurring in early August.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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