IRIS Website

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.

UPDATE

[2020-03-23| robm ]

As previously announced, support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 has been discontinued on all IRIS websites.

Resolved as of 2020-03-23 5:15pm

February 19, 2020 Linux Server Patching

February 18, 2020 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 19, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience outages of 30 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Mailing Lists & IRIS Applications patching Wednesday Jan 15, 5pm

January 14, 2020 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.

Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
IRIS Roster and Network applications on iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu.

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May 2019 Linux Server Patching

May 13, 2019 by Rob McNicholas

A few IRIS services will experience brief outages May 15, 2019 between 6pm and 7pm while systems are restarted following patching.

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, May 15th, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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December 2018 Linux Server Patching

December 11, 2018 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Dec 12, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

* Department mailing list services (lists.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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November 2018 Linux Server Patching

November 14, 2018 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Nov 14, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.

* Department mailing list services (lists.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 2018-11-14 18:33:00

October 2018 Linux Server Patching

October 10, 2018 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Oct 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.

* Department mailing list services (lists.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 2018-10-10 19:00:00

Most IRIS Services Offline, 7/31 11PM – 8/1 9AM

July 31, 2018 by Derek Calderon

Power will be shut down to our primary server room in order to complete tests of and apply load to our new UPS backup system. **Most services including file storage will be offline from 11PM Tues. 7/31 to 9AM Wed. 8/1**.

* **Network infrastructure** including wired and wireless networks and DHCP/DNS services will remain online (except in 290 Soda).

* **LDAP and Active Directory** authentication services will remain online.

* The **IRIS website** and portions of the department website including **personal homepages**, as well as other IRIS services that depend on file storage, will be shut down **starting at 11PM Tues. 7/31**.

* **Storage services**, including home and project file storage, will be shut down at **12 AM Wed. 8/1**.

* All services are scheduled to be **restored by 9AM Wed. 8/1**, but may be online earlier if maintenance is completed ahead of schedule.

As the IRIS website will be unavailable during this maintenance, https://status.eecs.berkeley.edu will be available for in-the-moment status updates.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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IT and Electrical Maintenance Shutdown, Sat. 6/16/18

June 15, 2018 by Derek Calderon

On Saturday, June 16th, the campus high voltage team will be cutting power to **Soda, Jacobs, Etcheverry, and North Gate Halls** to complete critical power grid maintenance. The electrical shutdown is currently scheduled for **8AM to 1PM** and these buildings will be **closed** during this time to all but critical staff related to the maintenance projects.

We are also taking this time to perform safety tests in our server and network rooms, as well as replacing the failed battery backup system in our primary server room. As a result, **the outage window for most IT services** (other than basic network connectivity) **is 11PM 6/15 – 9PM 6/16**.

Anybody with computers and electronics in Soda and Jacobs is **STRONGLY RECOMMENDED** to power off their noncritical systems when leaving the office on Friday, June 15. Critical systems **MUST** be powered off by 6AM on Saturday the 16th. This includes machines hosted in the 340 Soda server room, and a separate message will be sent to those system administrators next week.

As most of EECS’ IT infrastructure is hosted in Soda Hall, this will have some impacts which are detailed below. This will affect all EECS locations which are not undergoing electrical maintenance: **Cory, Sutardja Dai and Blum Halls, the Calvin Lab, and BWRC** as well as remote users.

* **Network infrastructure** (wired and wireless connections, including DHCP and DNS services) **will be offline for a brief period between 6:00 and 6:30 AM** in order to perform annual Emergency Power Off and Fire Alarm tests in our network core. Basic networking (including DHCP/DNS) will be restored by 6:30 and should remain up for the remainder of the day for all locations outside of Soda and Jacobs Hall.

* The IRIS website and portions of the department website including personal homepages, as well as other IRIS services that depend on file storage, will be shut down **starting at 11PM Fri. 6/15**

* Storage services, including home and project file storage, will be shut down at **12 AM Sat. 6/16**

* All services are scheduled to be **restored by 9PM**, but may be online earlier if maintenance is completed ahead of schedule.

As the IRIS website will be unavailable during this maintenance, https://status.eecs.berkeley.edu will be available for in-the-moment status updates.

Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns.
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IRIS Applications Unavailable Sun May 20 8am-8:30am

May 20, 2018 by Rob McNicholas

The IRIS Roster and Network applications will be unavailable Sunday May 20 from 8am to 8:30am for system maintenance. IST will be patching the database server during this time.

Resolved as of 2018-05-20 08:30:00