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Web, Mailing Lists, Jabber patching Wednesday, May 15th

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Because May 14th is “Patch Tuesday”, the Department’s web servers, mailing list server, and jabber server will be patched and rebooted at 7am Wednesday, May 15th [1]. Total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes.

This will affect the following public-facing servers:
  • www.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • www.cs.berkeley.edu
  • lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
  • iris.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
  • eecs.org
  • 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
  • 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




[1] *Please Note: The original version of this news item incorrectly listed the date as May 8th.*

Resolved as of 2013-05-15 07:30:00

Web and mailing list server patching, Apr 10 at 7am

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The department’s web server (www.eecs, www.cs), mailing list server (lists.eecs), wiki server (wiki.eecs), application server (apps.eecs) and jabber server (jabber.eecs) will be restarted Wednesday, April 10 at 7am.

On Tuesday evening these servers will have operating system patches installed which require a restart. They will be restarted automatically at 7am Wednesday morning and should be back in service by 7:15am.

These servers will now be patched (and rebooted if necessary) on the morning following first Tuesday of each month, the same schedule as our Windows servers.

[Read more…] about Web and mailing list server patching, Apr 10 at 7am

wiki.eecs to be upgraded May 3 6pm

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wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu will be upgraded to the latest version of the wiki software, and migrated to a new, faster machine beginning at 6pm, Thursday May 3. The server should be back up no later than 8pm.

After the migration to the new server, you may need to restart your web browser in case it had cached the old address.
[Read more…] about wiki.eecs to be upgraded May 3 6pm

Storage Migration

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home.eecs and project.eecs will be down from 8pm to midnight on July
12th, 2011 to be migrated to new equipment. The actual downtime is
expected to be much smaller.

The rest of this notice is primarily targeted at system administrators.
If you choose to read this and have questions about some of the
technical details, please contact your system administrator(s).

1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Most changes will be straightforward. Some project spaces will be
handled differently, see the details below. Note that this implies
a re-mount.

    Old                        New
home:/eecs/<user>     home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>
project:/proj/<name>  project:/vol/proj/<name>

2) CIFS shares will not change (except for the specially-handled project
spaces). However, SMB2 will be enabled (including durable filehandles).

3) The following project spaces will be migrated differently:

     Old NFS export                 New NFS export
project:/proj/aneureuther       cluster:/vol/cproj/aneureuther
project:/proj/b-cam             cluster:/vol/cproj/b-cam
project:/proj/brass             cluster:/vol/cproj/brass
project:/proj/daw-a             cluster:/vol/cproj/daw-a
project:/proj/demmel-d          cluster:/vol/cproj/demmel-d
project:/proj/graham            cluster:/vol/cproj/graham
project:/proj/hilfinger-a       cluster:/vol/cproj/hilfinger-a
project:/proj/iram              cluster:/vol/cproj/iram
project:/proj/jordan-a          cluster:/vol/cproj/jordan-a
project:/proj/millennium        cluster:/vol/cproj/millennium
project:/proj/neureuther        cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther
project:/proj/neureuther-flcc   cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-flcc
project:/proj/neureuther-intel  cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-intel
project:/proj/now               cluster:/vol/cproj/now
project:/proj/parlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/parlab
project:/proj/radlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/radlab
project:/proj/tinyos            cluster:/vol/cproj/tinyos
project:/proj/titanium          cluster:/vol/cproj/titanium
project:/proj/vision            cluster:/vol/cproj/vision
project:/proj/vision-b          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-b
project:/proj/vision-c          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-c
project:/proj/vision-e          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-e
project:/proj/yelick            cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick
project:/proj/yelick-old        cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick-old

If the project space in the above list had CIFS share(s) associated with
it, the said share(s) will retain their name, but will now live on
\\\\\\CLUSTER\<share_name>.

If you have questions or concerns about the timing or technical details,
then please email me at aculich@eecs.berkeley.edu or drop by 319 Soda;
as many of you know, Fred Archibald has retired and I have taken over
his role managing IDSG, so whether or not you have storage questions,
feel free to drop by my office to say hello and introduce yourself.
[Read more…] about Storage Migration

UPS Installation/Various System Outages

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Delivery is expected Monday for our new UPS which will be installed in the 290 Soda Hall server room. Some services will be down for short periods on Tuesday while they are moved off of room power and onto temporary power. Later in the week, there will be a second outage while those machines are moved onto the new UPS. Additionally, there may be a longer outage of our storage systems while some upgrades are done.

While I realize that this post is somewhat vague, a lot depends on exactly when the UPS is delivered and how long it takes to install it. I will be posting more refined notes to narrow down the scope of what services will be out (and when) as time goes on.

While we realize that there may be some inconveniences for some, please bear with us as we strive update our services and minimize outages for the future

[Read more…] about UPS Installation/Various System Outages

Various IRIS Servers Down 8am-10am Monday

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Electrical upgrades are needed in 290 to accommodate our new UPS.

There will be an electrical outage on Monday, February 28, 2011, in 290 Soda Hall. Windows servers WDS, WINTERM and PRINT will be down from 8:00am – 10:00am.

iris.eecs and wiki.eecs will also be down during this time.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Resolved as of 2011-02-28 10:15:00

Brief outages to a number of services, *rescheduled* Dec 20, 5-7pm

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A number of Department services will experience brief outages between 5pm and 7pm on Thursday, Dec 16th for SSL Certificate renewal. These services are:

* www.eecs / www.cs and other IRIS-hosted websites
* lists.eecs mailing list web interface
* jabber.eecs IM server
* iris.eecs IRIS website
* wiki.eecs IRIS Wiki hosting

No service should be down for more than 10 minutes.

[SSL Certificates](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SSL_certificate) are needed to secure connections to the servers. They typically expire every 1, 2, or 3 years. We are installing 3-year certificates at this time.

Advanced users may want to know that we are switching to a new Certificate Authority at this time. Please see [the Nov 4th IRIS News article](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/news/4591-new-ssl-certificate-service) for information on this new CA.
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