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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

Brief outage to numerous services, Thur Aug 20

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Various IRIS Linux servers will be rebooted between 8pm and 9pm tonight to complete operating system patching. No service will be down for more than a few minutes.

Affected services include:
* jabber.eecs
* www.eecs / www.cs
* iris.eecs
* lists.eecs
* wiki.eecs
* apps.eecs
* IRIS-hosted virtual web hosts

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Brief outage to numerous services, Thur Jul 16

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Between 7pm and 8pm on Thursday, July 16, 2015, we will be patching and rebooting the following servers.

www.eecs, jabber.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, apps.eecs and wiki.eecs.

Recent operating system patches include a new kernel, which requires a reboot to install. No machine will be down for more than 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2015-07-16 20:36:00

Brief outage to numerous services Monday June 1

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Between 7pm and 8pm on Monday, June 1, we will be patching and rebooting the following servers.

www.eecs, jabber.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, apps.eecs and wiki.eecs.

Recent operating system patches include a new kernel, which requires a reboot to install. No machine will be down for more than 10 minutes.

Resolved as of 2015-06-01 19:30:00

Jabber, Mailing Lists, Wikis down tonight 11pm

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The [department’s mailing list server](https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu), [wiki server](https://wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu) and jabber/xmpp server will each be briefly unavailable tonight, January 29th, between 11pm and midnight.

An important security patch has been released which must be applied as soon as possible. We apologize for the short notice on this downtime.

Resolved as of 2015-01-29 23:37:00

apps.eecs, wiki.eecs downtime Friday 8am

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The server hosting apps.eecs.berkeley,edu, wik.eecs.berkeley.edu and some other project websites[*] will be rebooted Friday, October 17th 2014 between 8am and 9am. Total downtime should be around 5 to 10 minutes.

This server is experiencing poor network performance. This reboot will be to reconfigure the virtual machine with a new network driver which has shown significantly better performance in our testing. Current bandwith to our NFS server is lmited to around 1.2 MB/s. In testing with the new driver, we are getting around 25 MB/s.

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

[*] The full list of affected websites is:

  • bjc.berkeley.edu
  • bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • csillustrated.berkeley.edu
  • leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • snap.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu

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PHP upgrade on apps.eecs, Wednesday Sep 3

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We have had numerous requests to upgrade PHP on apps.eecs to a newer version. Version 5.3 is available for this operating system and, barring any complaints, will be installed Wednesday, September 3rd beginning at 5pm. The server will be briefly restarted between 5pm and 6pm to complete the installation. This will affect the web hosts:

  • apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bjc.berkeley.edu
  • bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • csillustrated.berkeley.edu
  • leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • snap.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu

If you manage content on any of these hosts, please check your scripts for compatibility with PHP 5.3. The following references may be helpful

  • http://php.net/manual/en/migration52.php
  • http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.php
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9587767/upgrading-from-php-5-1-to-php-5-3

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Many IRIS Services Down for Patching, 6pm Tonight

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Another [OpenSSL bug was announced today](http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt), so many IRIS services will be briefly down for patching tonight starting at 6pm. This includes www.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, jabber.eecs, and apps.eecs. Each service will be down for a few minutes between 6pm and 7pm tonight, June 5, 2014.

Resolved as of 2014-06-05 21:09:00

Web, Mailing Lists, Jabber patching Wednesday, June 12

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Because June 11th is “Patch Tuesday”, the Department’s web servers, mailing list server, and jabber server will be patched and rebooted at 7am PDT Wednesday, June 12th, 2013. Total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes.

This will affect the following public-facing IRIS services:
  • www.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www.cs.berkeley.edu
  • lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • iris.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu


as well as all the below sites which are hosted on www.eecs.berkeley.edu. Please send any questions to [the IRIS helpdesk](http://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/help).

Websites also affected by this brief outage:

  • aima.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • basics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bavm2010.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bayesianlogic.cs.berkeley.edu
  • bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • bjc.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • blackouts.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • bnrg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • brass.cs.berkeley.edu
  • byob.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • c-bicc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • cc05.cs.berkeley.edu
  • cognitivecomputing2007.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • crest.berkeley.edu
  • cs4hs.berkeley.edu
  • csedday.berkeley.edu
  • daedalus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • deter.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • droidblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • endeavour.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • forms4usall.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu
  • graphics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu
  • hdp.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • i3.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • intelli-sec.cs.berkeley.edu
  • iptps03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • istcsc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • itcs.cs.berkeley.edu
  • iwqos03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • javasketch.cs.berkeley.edu
  • lithonet.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • mobicom2003.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • nano.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • nlp.cs.berkeley.edu
  • nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • oasis.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • obrien.berkeley.edu
  • Ocala.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • OpenNetLab.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • orange.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • osq.cs.berkeley.edu
  • overmind.cs.berkeley.edu
  • powersoc2012.org
  • power.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • quantum.cs.berkeley.edu
  • rv2011.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • safetp.cs.berkeley.edu
  • sahara.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • security.cs.berkeley.edu
  • simons.berkeley.edu
  • sipc.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • syslunch.CS.Berkeley.EDU
  • tenet.berkeley.edu
  • theory.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • tier-share.cs.berkeley.edu
  • titanium.cs.berkeley.edu
  • tracehost.cs.berkeley.edu
  • ucbvax.berkeley.edu
  • webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
  • webtp.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
  • www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu
  • www-cryo.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu
  • www-wavelet.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • xisa.cs.berkeley.edu
  • zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu

Resolved as of 2013-06-12 07:10:00