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Brief outages to various IRIS services, June 28 6pm-7pm

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A few IRIS servers must be restarted to install operating system patches. This includes the [IRIS website](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/), [IRIS Mailing List server](https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu), [Department website](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu), and department jabber service.

Servers will be restarted starting at 6pm Tuesday June 28th. No service should be down for more than 10 minutes, and maintenance should be complete by 7pm.
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lists.eecs mailing list server misbehaving

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The Department’s mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu has been experiencing occasional delays in sending messages. Some outgoing messages have been delayed by as much as 40 minutes. As part of the debugging process we are patching and rebooting the server around 10:40am.

Staff are investigating the problem and will post updates here as we learn more.
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Dept Web Servers, Mailing Lists, Jabber maintenence, May 11 6pm

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The department’s web server [www.eecs](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu), the IRIS website [iris.eecs](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/), the jabber server jabber.eecs and mailing list server [lists.eecs](https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be briefly unavailable May 11 beginning at 6pm to install operating system patches which require a server restart.

We expect all servers to be back in operation by 6:15pm.

As usual, please send any questions or comments to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

Resolved as of 2016-05-11 18:11:00

Mail List Server Maintenance, March 23 8pm-12am

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The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu wlll be down for maintenance Wednesday, March 23rd at 8pm for a major upgrade. The [Sympa](http://www.sympa.org/) mailing list software will be upgraded from version 5.4.5 to the most current version, 6.2.14.

We hope the upgrade will be completed by 10pm but are scheduling extra time in case of unexpected problems.

Mailing list owners and editors may wish to review the [Sympa release notes](http://www.sympa.org/distribution/latest-stable/NEWS) for a summary of changes.
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Scattered Service outages tonight, Feb 17, 6-7pm

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Critical RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 17, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following IRIS 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)

Resolved as of 2016-02-17 18:13:00

lists.eecs maintenence, Feb 10, 6pm

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The department’s mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be briefly unavailable tonight starting at 6pm, when it will be restarted to complete installation of some operating system patches.

In addition, message archiving will be temporarily disabled beginning at 5pm in order to migrate our mailing list archives to our new storage server. After the restart, list archiving will resume and all previously-delivered messages will be archived.

We expect the server to back in service no later than 6:15pm.

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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