IRIS

IS&T Software Distribution is sending UCB wide messages regarding UCB wide MatLab Licensing. These messages may not apply to the EECS MatLab licensing. EECS is in discussion with IS&T Software Distribution regarding our licensing and funding model. Please disregard the UCB wide messages.

Regardless of our ongoing conversation MatLab licensing will not be disrupted.

EECS will communicate our licensing and funding model when its finalized.

Due to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Tuesday, December 24 to Wednesday, January 1st, reopening on Thursday, January 2, 2014. Additionally, many staff are expected to be out until Monday, January 6th.

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. IRIS staff will be taking advantage of the holiday to do maintenance on some systems which will result in scattered outages, but any such downtime will be separately announced and posted on the IRIS website.

The IRIS Helpdesk will be closed beginning Monday December 23 at noon, and will reopen on Monday January 6. 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 6.

Requests for new IRIS accounts that are received after 3pm December 20 will be processed on January 6, 2014.

During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers will remain online (imail.eecs, inst.eecs, cory.eecs, c199.eecs and fileservice.eecs). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor inst@eecs email over the break. If you are unable to contact inst@eecs, you can leave a message at 510-643-6141. Please be aware, though, that staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 2.

We recommend that all desktop computers be shutdown during the Energy Curtailment Period. If your Windows computer needs to stay on during the break, we recommend that you check with your system administrator to ensure that Automatic Updates are enabled with the option “Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule that I specify” with a daily update schedule.

Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible, so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As a reminder:

* Instructional Computing Environment: inst@eecs
* Research / Staff Computing Environment: help@eecs

Enjoy your holiday break!

The new UNIX group id number for staff is 772.

We have taken the liberty of updating the default
UNIX group id number in the departmental NIS domain
for all staff that were using the old group id
number (10) to use the new UNIX group id number (772). This was done because the old number was low (less than 100) and could conflict with a default UNIX group id in some operating systems.

The IRIS help desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory M-F 9:30am-5pm,
642-7777) can help if yoiu have any questions.