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November IRIS Server Patching

November 13, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, November 15th, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Tuesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, November 15th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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October IRIS Server Patching

October 6, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, October 11th, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, October 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

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EECS Mailing Lists, IRIS applications maintenance, May 9, 6pm

May 9, 2023 by Rob McNicholas

The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu and the IRIS application server iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu will be undergoing maintenance tonight, Tuesday May 9th, from 6pm to 7pm. The mailing lists and the IRIS Account & Network registration applications will be unavailable during this time. Any mail sent to lists.eecs.berkeley.edu during this time will be held and delivered after maintenance is complete.

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

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Emergency Maintenance, IRIS Mailing Lists RT

February 27, 2023 by Rob McNicholas

Due to an issue with our MySQL server, the EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu and the IRIS Internal ticket tracking system will be down until approximately 2pm today, Feb 27.

UPDATE

[2023-02-27 | robm ]

Maintenance has been completed.

Resolved as of Mon Feb 27 13:47:35 PST 2023

Dec 14: Service interruption (login.eecs, lists.eecs)

December 14, 2022 by Lars Rohrbach

We are investigating an apparent issue with our VMware infrastructure, which is affecting various IRIS systems, including access to login.eecs, rt.eecs (our ticketing system), and lists.eecs (our maillist server).

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EECS Mailing Lists Maintenance, Wed March 16 5pm

March 14, 2022 by Rob McNicholas

The Department mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be down for maintenance this Wednesday, March 16, 2022 beginning at 5pm. During this maintenance, the Sympa mailing list software will be upgraded to the latest version, which we hope will fix a few bugs. We expect the outage to last no longer than 2 hours. Any mail sent to a list during this time will be held for delivery after the upgrade is complete.

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Mailing List Server maintenance, Thursday Feb 24 5pm

February 23, 2022 by Rob McNicholas

The Department Mailing List server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be down for maintenance beginning Thursday February 24th at 5pm. Service should be restored by 6pm at the latest. During this time, any incoming messages will be held and distributed after the server is back up.

This maintenance is to upgrade the back-end MySQL database, in preparation for an upgrade of the mailing list Sympa software next week. That maintenance will be separately announced.

Mailing lists maintenance, Dec 22 6pm

December 22, 2021 by Rob McNicholas

The IRIS Mailing List Server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be undergoing routine maintenance tonight, Dec 22, beginning at 6pm. The server should be back no later than 6:30pm. The web interface will be unavailable during this time, and any mail sent to a list on lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be held and distributed after the server is back up.

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Linux Server Patching, Oct 14 5:30pm

October 14, 2021 by Rob McNicholas

Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5:30pm Thursday, Oct 14th, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5:30pm and 6:30pm.

* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)

* IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)

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IRIS applications & Mailing Lists maintenance Aug 12, 6pm

August 12, 2021 by Rob McNicholas

The IRIS Roster (account) and Network applications, and the EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be unavailable tonight from 6pm to approximately 6:30pm for routine maintenance.

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