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Potential Campus Power Outage

October 8, 2019 | Lars Rohrbach

We have been alerted to possible PG&E power outages due to fire danger, and that campus power may be shutdown at some point over the next 2-3 days. If we receive notice of imminent shutdown, we will work to safely shutdown our NetApp fileserver and other critical infrastructure systems; this may occur on very short notice.

We will endeavor to update this News item as we receive any updates.

We recommend you proceed with shutting down any non-essential machines in advance, e.g. shutting down workstations at the end of the work day.

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Mailing List Server maintenance, Wednesday, June 5, 5pm-7pm (rescheduled)

May 28, 2019 | Rob McNicholas

The EECS mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be down for maintenance beginning Wednesday, June 5th at 5pm. The Sympa mailing list software will be upgraded to resolve an issue that has been affecting some lists. (This bug causes updates to list owners or moderators to not take effect until the server is restarted.

The upgrade should take less than 1 hour, but we are allocating 2 hours in case of any problems that might occur. During this window, no messages will be accepted or distributed by lists.eecs.berkeley.edu. Incoming messages will be deferred until the server is back up; no messages should be lost.

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May 2019 Linux Server Patching

May 13, 2019 | 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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lists.eecs login issues reported

February 19, 2019 | Lars Rohrbach

Staff are investigating login issues with our Sympa mail list server, lists.eecs.
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December 2018 Linux Server Patching

December 11, 2018 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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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EECS Mailing Lists Maintenance, May 9 6pm

May 9, 2018 | Rob McNicholas

The Department’s Mailing List Server will be offline for maintenance Wednesday May 9, 2018 from 6pm-7pm. During this time the operating system will be patched, and a new SSL certificate will be installed for email and for the web interface

Any mail sent to a list during the maintenance will be queued and retried; no mail will be lost but delivery will be delayed.

Please send any questions to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.
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