Department Webservice

NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday May 24, 2025

May 19, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

We are scheduling a NetApp ONTAP upgrade, to apply a necessary update to our NetApp fileserver, from 8am to 12pm on Saturday, May 24, 2025.

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.

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Soda Hall 2nd Floor Power Outage on March 26, 2025

March 14, 2025 by Lars Rohrbach

Following up on the work done during the June 13th Soda Hall power outage, we have a similar outage for the second floor of Soda Hall scheduled during Spring Break, to complete (hopefully!) a circuit breaker replacement. As with the last outage, electrical power to the Soda Hall second floor will be down during much of the day on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Critical systems will be down from about 6am until perhaps 5pm.

Of primary note is that the department NetApp fileservers will be down, so any systems that depend on HOME or PROJECT storage will be shutdown or nonfunctional. Services that will be unavailable during the maintenance period include: department webservice (including people.eecs, www2.eecs and all other IRIS-hosted web sites), IRIS account & network forms, login servers (login.eecs, login-mfa.eecs, winterm.eecs), print server print.eecs, and outgoing SMTP server smtp.eecs.

Any systems that remain powered-on but make use of HOME or PROJECT storage may become unresponsive during this time. Rebooting after maintenance is completed is usually recommended.

Services that will remain online and available include: DHCP, EECS Active Directory, EECS LDAP, wired networking, DNS (cronus.eecs), and maillists (lists.eecs), and the main department website eecs.berkeley.edu.

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NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday November 30, 2024

November 13, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

We are scheduling a NetApp ONTAP upgrade, to apply a necessary update to our NetApp fileserver, from 8am to 12pm on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

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NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday August 17, 2024

August 7, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

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.

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Web services upgrade, Friday July 5

July 3, 2024 by Rob McNicholas

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

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Soda Hall 2nd Floor Power Outage on June 13, 2024

June 3, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

As noted following the January 4th Soda Hall power outage, an additional power outage for the second floor of Soda Hall is being scheduled to complete a circuit breaker replacement. Electrical power to the Soda Hall second floor will be down during much of the day on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Critical systems will be down from about 6am until perhaps 5pm.

Any systems that remain powered-on but make use of HOME or PROJECT storage may become unresponsive during this time. Rebooting after maintenance is completed is usually recommended.

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Anonymous ftp access ending May 1, 2024

April 3, 2024 by Rob McNicholas

For many years the Department has operated an anonymous ftp server at ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu and ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. Before web sites, this was how software and papers were distributed to the public. Since web sites are the preferred way to distribute digital assets these days, no new content has been published on our ftp servers for over a decade. We will be ending support for anonymous ftp access effective May 1, 2024. After that time, the current contents of our ftp archive will continue to be made available via a web page at https://ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu and https://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/.

Update: May 1, 1pm: The ftp server has been shut down. The replacement web page is up at https://ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu

NetApp Fileserver Maintenance, Saturday March 30, 2024

March 24, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

We are scheduling a NetApp ONTAP upgrade, to update our NetApp fileserver, from 8am to 12pm on Saturday, March 30, 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.

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Soda Hall Power Outage on January 4, 2024

November 16, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

To accommodate the installation of new circuit breakers and PDU (Power Distribution Unit) connections, all electrical power to the 2nd and 4th floors of Soda Hall will be shutdown during the day of Thursday, January 4, 2024. Critical systems will be down from 6am until perhaps 5pm.

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Ending support for TLS 1 and TLS 1.1 on March 24, 2020

March 3, 2020 by Rob McNicholas

Following the lead of the campus, Google, and other industry leaders, IRIS will be ending support for the older security protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on the department web servers (e.g. people.eecs.berkeley.edu, www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu, and any IRIS-hosted web site) on March 24, 2020. If you are using a modern web browser, you will not notice any changes.