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Soda Hall Power Outage on January 4, 2024

November 16, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

To accommodate the installation of new circuit breakers and PDU (Power Distribution Unit) connections, all electrical power to the 2nd and 4th floors of Soda Hall will be shutdown during the day of Thursday, January 4, 2024. Critical systems will be down from 6am until perhaps 5pm.

Of primary note is that the department NetApp fileservers will be down, so any systems that depend on HOME or PROJECT storage will be shutdown or nonfunctional. Services that will be unavailable during the maintenance period include: department webservice (including people.eecs, www2.eecs and all other IRIS-hosted web sites), IRIS account & network forms, login servers (login.eecs, login-mfa.eecs, winterm.eecs), print server print.eecs, and outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs.

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Urgent NetApp Fileserver Downtime, Saturday July 8, 2023

July 6, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

We will be scheduling an urgent 4 hour Maintenance to update our NetApp fileserver from 8am to 12pm on Saturday, July 8, 2023. This update must be done prior to installing Microsoft Updates on AD Domain Controllers scheduled for release on Jul 11^th to secure the Netapp and maintain future connectivity with Microsoft AD Domain connection for our CIFS/SMB Shares.

All Home directories and Project shares (CIFS/SMB and NFS) may experience disconnection during the update that may cause data loss on active, open files. Please close your open files and save them before Saturday Morning. Services (e.g. webservice) that depend on this storage will also be down or unresponsive.

When maintenance is completed, NFS clients should automatically resume normal operation, but a reboot should help if they don’t. CIFS clients (such as Windows and MacOS) may need to remount filesystems, or simply be rebooted.

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Dept NetApp Filer Maintenance, 3pm January 3, 2022

December 21, 2021 by Lars Rohrbach

We will be performing an OS upgrade on our departmental NetApp filers (upgrading from OnTAP version 9.7 to 9.8), which will require a service outage from 3pm to 9pm on Monday, January 3, 2022. All NFS and CIFS access to the filer (home and project storage) will be down during that time. Services (e.g. webservice) that depend on this storage will also be down or unresponsive.

While we are scheduling a 6 hour maintenance window, we will attempt to minimize the service outage if possible.

When maintenance is completed, NFS clients should automatically resume normal operation. CIFS clients (such as Windows and MacOS) may need to remount filesystems, or simply be rebooted.

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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.

Potential Campus Power Outage

October 8, 2019 by 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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New SSL Certificate installed for IRIS-hosted websites

May 13, 2019 by Rob McNicholas

The SSL certificate for people.eecs.berkeley.edu and all other IRIS-hosted websites has been renewed. The new certificate expires May 12, 2021 and has the following fingerprints:

SHA-256 Fingerprint: D3:48:EE:23:64:CB:FD:FD:E5:F5:8E:5D:6E:F0:1B:F3:F7:CE:E4:7B:E3:2E:16:9D:4E:07:4A:A7:15:94:7B:8B

SHA-1 Fingerprint: 37:40:17:82:A1:42:D5:8C:68:C4:9E:23:C9:00:E1:3E:D2:2C:D9:1E

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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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Power Failure in Soda Machine room 11:40am Dec 20

December 20, 2017 by Rob McNicholas

Contractors attempting to repair the UPS in our primary machine room tripped a breaker which disabled most IRIS services. Service has been mostly restored as of around 2:05pm.

The lists.eecs.berkeley.edu mailing list server is still being rebooted but should be back shortly.

Resolved as of 2017-12-20 14:07:00

Brief outages to various IRIS services, Sep 7, 6pm

September 7, 2017 by Rob McNicholas

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

* Personal and Project web services (people.eecs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)
* 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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