The department webserver (www.eecs, www.cs and related virtual hosts) has been performing poorly since around 10:30am on Sunday, June 17. The problem appears to be slow fileservice from project.eecs. Staff are investigating.
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Department Webservice
Department Webservice
IDSG Website downtime
The server hosting http://idsg.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for operating system patches Monday May 14, 2012 from 06:15 to 13:00
Actual patch time may take less than announced time.
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Web, Mailing List, Jabber outage May 9th, 6am
Due to a major reorganization in the IRIS Data Center, numerous IRIS services will be unavailable 6am-8am, Wednesday May 9.
The servers that support the department’s website, the IRIS website, jabber, ACG applications, the print spooler, the Windows Terminal Server, and the department’s mailing lists will all be physically moved to new locations. Extensive prep work has been done to minimize downtime to the absolute minimum, and we hope that most services will be up sooner, but we are allotting 2 hours for this work.
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Department website maintenance, Sep 1, 10pm
Total downtime should be less than 15 minutes.
Resolved as of 2011-09-01 22:32:00
Storage Migration
home.eecs and project.eecs will be down from 8pm to midnight on July
12th, 2011 to be migrated to new equipment. The actual downtime is
expected to be much smaller.
The rest of this notice is primarily targeted at system administrators.
If you choose to read this and have questions about some of the
technical details, please contact your system administrator(s).
1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Most changes will be straightforward. Some project spaces will be
handled differently, see the details below. Note that this implies
a re-mount.
Old New
home:/eecs/<user> home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>
project:/proj/<name> project:/vol/proj/<name>
2) CIFS shares will not change (except for the specially-handled project
spaces). However, SMB2 will be enabled (including durable filehandles).
3) The following project spaces will be migrated differently:
Old NFS export New NFS export
project:/proj/aneureuther cluster:/vol/cproj/aneureuther
project:/proj/b-cam cluster:/vol/cproj/b-cam
project:/proj/brass cluster:/vol/cproj/brass
project:/proj/daw-a cluster:/vol/cproj/daw-a
project:/proj/demmel-d cluster:/vol/cproj/demmel-d
project:/proj/graham cluster:/vol/cproj/graham
project:/proj/hilfinger-a cluster:/vol/cproj/hilfinger-a
project:/proj/iram cluster:/vol/cproj/iram
project:/proj/jordan-a cluster:/vol/cproj/jordan-a
project:/proj/millennium cluster:/vol/cproj/millennium
project:/proj/neureuther cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther
project:/proj/neureuther-flcc cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-flcc
project:/proj/neureuther-intel cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-intel
project:/proj/now cluster:/vol/cproj/now
project:/proj/parlab cluster:/vol/cproj/parlab
project:/proj/radlab cluster:/vol/cproj/radlab
project:/proj/tinyos cluster:/vol/cproj/tinyos
project:/proj/titanium cluster:/vol/cproj/titanium
project:/proj/vision cluster:/vol/cproj/vision
project:/proj/vision-b cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-b
project:/proj/vision-c cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-c
project:/proj/vision-e cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-e
project:/proj/yelick cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick
project:/proj/yelick-old cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick-old
If the project space in the above list had CIFS share(s) associated with
it, the said share(s) will retain their name, but will now live on
\\\\\\CLUSTER\<share_name>.
If you have questions or concerns about the timing or technical details,
then please email me at aculich@eecs.berkeley.edu or drop by 319 Soda;
as many of you know, Fred Archibald has retired and I have taken over
his role managing IDSG, so whether or not you have storage questions,
feel free to drop by my office to say hello and introduce yourself.
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UPS Installation/Various System Outages
Delivery is expected Monday for our new UPS which will be installed in the 290 Soda Hall server room. Some services will be down for short periods on Tuesday while they are moved off of room power and onto temporary power. Later in the week, there will be a second outage while those machines are moved onto the new UPS. Additionally, there may be a longer outage of our storage systems while some upgrades are done.
While I realize that this post is somewhat vague, a lot depends on exactly when the UPS is delivered and how long it takes to install it. I will be posting more refined notes to narrow down the scope of what services will be out (and when) as time goes on.
While we realize that there may be some inconveniences for some, please bear with us as we strive update our services and minimize outages for the future
Brief outage to most IRIS services
More details will be posted as they become available.
Resolved as of 2011-03-03 08:45:00
290 Machine Room Outage
Some electrical work in 290 Soda caused the unexpected downtime of several IDSG services, including Home and Project Storage, Departmental Webservers, and others. The power has been restored. Some services are still being restored.
Work was in preparation for a new UPS system in the machine room. This involved moving some circuits on systems that have redundant power. There were not expected to be any outages at this time.
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Problems with various EECS services due to electrical work
Due to work related to the installation of a new UPS, damage occurred to cabling used by the EECS Storage systems, causing unplanned downtime for a variety of EECS services, including:
* EECS Home Directories and Project space (should be back up)
* Unix Login Server – login.eecs (rebooted)
* DHCP (back up)
* Departmental Webserver (rebooting)
* Matlab licensing (still down)
* EECS IM/Jabber (still down)
* EECS Mailing lists – lists.eecs (still down)
Staff are working to bring these services and others back up now.
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Brief outages to a number of services, *rescheduled* Dec 20, 5-7pm
A number of Department services will experience brief outages between 5pm and 7pm on Thursday, Dec 16th for SSL Certificate renewal. These services are:
* www.eecs / www.cs and other IRIS-hosted websites
* lists.eecs mailing list web interface
* jabber.eecs IM server
* iris.eecs IRIS website
* wiki.eecs IRIS Wiki hosting
No service should be down for more than 10 minutes.
[SSL Certificates](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SSL_certificate) are needed to secure connections to the servers. They typically expire every 1, 2, or 3 years. We are installing 3-year certificates at this time.
Advanced users may want to know that we are switching to a new Certificate Authority at this time. Please see [the Nov 4th IRIS News article](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/4591-new-ssl-certificate-service) for information on this new CA.
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