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Linux Server Patching, Jan 14th 9pm-10pm

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A number of IRIS services will experience brief outages Thursday January 14th between 9pm and 10pm while they are restarted after patching. These include:

* www.eecs.berkeley.edu
* lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
* jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu
* wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
* apps.eecs.berkeley.edu


We expect each service to be down for at most 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2016-01-14 21:28:00

Various IRIS Services Down for patching, Wednesday, 6pm

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Routine RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Dec 23, 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 web services (www.eecs, www.cs, 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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Brief outage to numerous services, Thur Nov 12 7pm

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IDSG’s Linux Servers will be patched and rebooted tonight starting at 7pm. Numerous services will experience brief outages between 7pm and 8pm, including:

web service from www.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris.eecs.berkeley.edu, apps.eecs.berkeley.edu, wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu

Mailing Lists from lists.eecs.berkeley.edu

Jabber/XMPP service from jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu

ftp service from ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu

No service should be down for more than 10 minutes.

During this maintenance window, the [Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp) software on jabber.eecs will also be upgraded from version 3.9.3 to version 3.10.2, [which should fix some outstanding bugs](http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/changelog.html).





Resolved as of 2015-11-12 20:00:00

Campus recovering from major computing outage

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EECS and the rest of campus is recovering from a major computing outage that started Friday evening around 6:15pm with a fire in the campus data center. Most critical services have been restored since about 1pm Saturday, Sep 19th. More information about the fire and its impact on campus IT systems can be found on the sites http://news.berkeley.edu/ and http://ucbsystems.org/

Most EECS / IRIS services are back to normal since around 1pm Saturday. Some servers may not have recovered and will need a reboot, and IRIS staff will be attending to those as they are discovered. You may report any remaining outages to the IRIS Helpdesk.

Resolved as of 2015-09-19 13:15:00

Brief outage to numerous services, Thur Aug 20

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Various IRIS Linux servers will be rebooted between 8pm and 9pm tonight to complete operating system patching. No service will be down for more than a few minutes.

Affected services include:
* jabber.eecs
* www.eecs / www.cs
* iris.eecs
* lists.eecs
* wiki.eecs
* apps.eecs
* IRIS-hosted virtual web hosts

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Brief outage to numerous services, Thur Jul 16

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Between 7pm and 8pm on Thursday, July 16, 2015, we will be patching and rebooting the following servers.

www.eecs, jabber.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, apps.eecs and wiki.eecs.

Recent operating system patches include a new kernel, which requires a reboot to install. No machine will be down for more than 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2015-07-16 20:36:00

Brief outage to numerous services Monday June 1

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Between 7pm and 8pm on Monday, June 1, we will be patching and rebooting the following servers.

www.eecs, jabber.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, apps.eecs and wiki.eecs.

Recent operating system patches include a new kernel, which requires a reboot to install. No machine will be down for more than 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2015-06-01 19:30:00

Jabber Server Maintenance, April 29 6pm

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The department’s jabber/xmpp server jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes on April 29th, beginning at 6pm.

During this maintenance, the [Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp) server software will be upgraded to version 3.10.0. The [changelog is available on the igniterealtime website](http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/changelog.html).
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