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Unix Login Server

Unix Login Server, login.eecs

login.eecs will be unavailable

June 7, 2011 by Mark Kraitchman

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be off the network
for scheduled maintenance starting Tuesday June 7, 2011 at 6:15 am. Oracle Solaris patches will be applied. Normal service should resume before 11 am.
[Read more…] about login.eecs will be unavailable

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Unix Login Server

Problems with various EECS services due to electrical work

February 24, 2011 by IRIS Staff

Due to work related to the installation of a new UPS, damage occurred to cabling used by the EECS Storage systems, causing unplanned downtime for a variety of EECS services, including:

* EECS Home Directories and Project space (should be back up)
* Unix Login Server – login.eecs (rebooted)
* DHCP (back up)
* Departmental Webserver (rebooting)
* Matlab licensing (still down)
* EECS IM/Jabber (still down)
* EECS Mailing lists – lists.eecs (still down)

Staff are working to bring these services and others back up now.

[Read more…] about Problems with various EECS services due to electrical work

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Department Webservice, DHCP, Jabber, Mailing Lists, Matlab Licensing, Unix Login Server

login.eecs is down

August 24, 2010 by Lars Rohrbach

The unix login server login.eecs is offline this morning since about 6:30am for system patching, previously announced via /etc/motd on login.eecs:

- Tuesday August 24, 2010 - login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will
be down for operating system patches from 6:30 to 9am

Resolved as of 2010-08-24 08:40:00

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Unix Login Server

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

May 25, 2010 by Mark Kraitchman

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for
Solaris operating system patches beginning
Tuesday May 25, 2010 6:30 am. The
scheduled down time is two hours but we
expect to be down in less time if there are
no problems.
[Read more…] about login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Unix Login Server

Widespread service disruption due to UPS failure

November 21, 2009 by IRIS Staff

Last evening about 21:26 there was a power failure in the main EECS server room in Soda Hall. The UPS held up some systems until about 22:00 at which time staff shut the room down completely. Many EECS services were disrupted as a result. The problem was found to be in the UPS which fried the high voltage output terminal block. The terminal block was bypassed and the UPS has been removed from service until further notice. Most EECS computing services have been restored as of 03:15 this morning with the exception of the IRIS web server, which was restored around 10:15am Sunday.

Thanks to the staff who came in early Sunday morning to deal with this issue.

Resolved as of 2009-11-22 03:15:00

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Active Directory, Department Webservice, DNS, Home Directory Storage, IRIS Website, LDAP, Mailing Lists, Project Storage, SMTP Server, Unix Login Server

Major Upgrades on June 6, 2009

June 6, 2009 by IRIS Staff

On Saturday, June 6th, we will be doing major upgrades to some of our
backend systems. This work will start at 10 am. We expect that some of
services will start coming back up in about 3 hours, but due to the
complexity and extensiveness of the upgrades, the downtime may extend well
beyond the 3 hour mark. These upgrades are imperative for the continuing
reliability of the infrastructure services. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

The following services will be affected:

* Home directories
* Project space
* UNIX SWW
* Departmental/IDSG web servers
* IMAP (due to the additional work, IMAP will be down for an additional 2 hours)
* argus/login (UNIX login servers)
* Department websites www.eecs / www.cs and all hosted project sites
* Department mailing lists hosted on lists.eecs
* buffy and all ACG applications
* wikis hosted on wiki.eecs
* Department’s jabber server, jabber.eecs
[Read more…] about Major Upgrades on June 6, 2009

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Department Webservice, FTP Server, Home Directory Storage, IMAP Server, IRIS Website, Jabber, Mailing Lists, Project Storage, Unix Login Server, Unix Software Warehouse, Wiki Hosting

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was not available

November 18, 2008 by Mark Kraitchman

login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was not available while it was patched with a new kernel. The new kernel patch 137138-09 patched a vulnerability which could be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability was caused due to an unspecified error in the socket (3SOCKET) function, which can be exploited to cause a system panic.

Resolved as of 2008-11-18 07:31:00

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Unix Login Server

Coeus/Project Downtime

August 20, 2008 by IRIS Staff

Attention System Administrators,

On Wednesday, August 20th from 6am-8am, IDSG will be migrating production file service of home directories and project space to the new NetApp filers. There will be downtime during this migration that will impact the majority of users in the department. Please evaluate the impact for your users and notify them of those details. A much shorter public announcement will be going out soon to the entire EECS community indicating that local System Administrators will be letting them know of any specific information as to how it will impact their work.

The following services will be affected:

– coeus
– project
– sww (not winsww)
– argus
– www.eecs and www.cs web servers
– the IRIS website

The following changes apply:

1. COEUS

– coeus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be replaced by home.EECS.Berkeley.EDU.

– NFS access will change from coeus:/vol/vol0/eecs/username to home:/eecs/username

– The amd and automaps will be appropriately changed.

– CIFS access will change from \\\\\\COEUS\HOME\username to
\\\\\\HOME\username

– The old hostname coeus will be a CNAME to home.EECS.Berkeley.EDU until September 20th.

2. PROJECT

– NFS access will change from project:/vol/vol[02]/projspace to project:/proj/projspace

**NOTE**: A few mount points will change in a different way. See the end of this announcement for details.

**NOTE2**: If your project spaces are merged, the details will be worked out with you directly outside of this announcement.

– The amd and automaps will be appropriately changed.

– CIFS share names will not be affected.

This announcement may be followed by additional updates if additional technical details need to be publicized. Certain requests may be delayed beyond the normal response time (e.g. amd/automap change requests, new user creation, project space creation, etc.) during the 2 weeks prior to the migration.

The downtimes for different services will be different. There will be one or more additional announcements as services get restored to allow early access to the appropriate systems. E.g. the actual downtime for coeus/home is expected to be only a few minutes.

This list will receive notice when access is restored.

Sysadmins should be ready to reboot systems that need to remount filesystems between 7:30 and 8 AM. CIFS access should resume during that time as well. The CIFS share names will not change and therefore should not require a reboot for those systems.

Be advised that there are a number of follow-up tasks after the outage, which could result in slow response from these systems.

If you experience problems during or after the outage, or have
additional questions – please contact Helpdesk at help@eecs or 2-7777 or 395 Cory.

Project Space Changes Exempt from the Default Rule
OLD NEW
project:/vol/vol2/231images project:/proj/deptweb/231images
project:/vol/vol0/bokor project:/proj/bokor/bokor
project:/vol/vol0/bokorgroup project:/proj/bokor/bokorgroup
project:/vol/vol2/brass project:/proj/brass-a
project:/vol/vol2/jordan project:/proj/jordan-a
project:/vol/vol2/landay project:/proj/landay-a
project:/vol/vol0/sequin-a project:/proj/sequin/sequin
project:/vol/vol2/sequin-a project:/proj/sequin/sequin-a
project:/vol/vol2/sequin project:/proj/sequin/sequin-b
project:/vol/vol2/smith project:/proj/smith-b
project:/vol/vol0/yelick project:/proj/yelick-old

[Read more…] about Coeus/Project Downtime

Filed Under: Resolved Incidents Services: Department Webservice, Home Directory Storage, IRIS Website, Project Storage, Unix Login Server, Unix Software Warehouse, Wiki Hosting

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