Unix Login Server

Unix Login Server, login.eecs

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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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday, August 9, 2023

August 7, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm. login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 10:30pm to 11pm. Other Linux hosts (e.g. DNS servers cronus and rhea, and SMTP server gateway.eecs) may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting approximately 6-7pm.

We expect actual downtimes to be shorter than scheduled.

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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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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday June 13, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

June 12, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday May 2, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

May 1, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday March 15, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

March 14, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday January 31, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

January 30, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday December 20, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

December 19, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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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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