UC System Status

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Start Date: Monday, June 26th, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – TBD
Groups Impacted: Google Talk Users
Equipment: Google Talk

Description: Google has announced they will be replacing their Talk instant messaging service with Google Hangouts on June 26, 2017.

In the event that campus does not have a new contract with Google in place, there will be a service interruption for Google Talk users who exchange instant messages with users outside of the Berkeley domain, e.g. @umich.edu, @gmail.com.

As soon as a new contract is in place, Google Hangouts will be fully enabled and users will be able to exchange messages with users outside of the Berkeley domain. 

CMR: CHG0030783

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 2100 – 2359
Groups Impacted: All voicemail Users
Equipment: AVST System Server

Description: IST-Telecom will migrate AVST Voicemail to a new SMTP server and during this time email notifications will not work for about 15min.

CMR: CHG0030801

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Wednesday June 28 – Thursday June 29, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 2100 – 0200
Groups Impacted: Rightfax Users
Equipment: Opentext Rightfax

Description: IST Telecom team will be installing Microsoft updates on the rightfax server. During this, maintenance there will be service interruption to all rightfax users.

CMR: CHG0030795

Outage Type: UNSCHEDULED OUTAGE
Start Date: Monday, June 19th, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 1500 – TBD
Groups Impacted: Campus
Equipment: auth.berkeley.edu

Description: The CalNet Team is reporting an intermittent degradation of service for the CAS server cluster (auth.berkeley.edu), due to load and a known bug in the 5.0.4 server.

A replacement build is being tested and will be pushed to production in an emergency fix as soon as is possible.

CalNet is working with a vendor to help diagnose and manage this process.

CMR: TBD

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 0800
Groups Impacted: CalCentral Users
Equipment: calcentral.berkeley.edu

Description: CalCentral will be unavailable Saturday, June 17th from 7:00am to 8:00ama as the system will be restarted to address a cluster capacity issue.

CMR: CHG0030781

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Friday, June 16, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 0800
Groups Impacted: CalCentral Users
Equipment: calcentral.berkeley.edu

Description: CalCentral will be unavailable Friday, June 16th from 7:00am to 8:00am as the system will be restarted to address a cluster capacity issue.

CMR: CHG0030779

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Start Date: June 30th, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0800 – 0900
Groups Impacted: CalMail SMTP Users
Equipment: CalMail SMTP Server

Description: The CalMail SMTP server will be retired on June 30, 2017. In preparation for the retirement, the bConnected Team has restricted access to the server to Berkeley hosts.

Please see: What are my mail sending options when CalMail SMTP server is retired? for more information.

CMR: CHG0030402

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 1700
Groups impacted: Telecom Catalog System Users
Equipment: ServiceNow Telecom Catalog

Description: IST Telecom will be patching the ServiceNow Telecom Catalog to a later version of ServiceNow on Saturday June 17th, from 7:00am to 5:00pm.

The system will be up and available during this time but users may encounter performance degradation and unexpected inconsistencies during the patch.

CMR: CHG0030778

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Friday, June 16, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 1800
Groups Impacted: Campus
Equipment: HCM

Description: HCM will be unavailable Friday, June 16th due to a major system upgrade related to system’s security.

CMR: CHG0030715

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted:  Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0530 – 0700
Groups impacted: Campus
Equipment: slb1.net.1918.berkeley.edu

Description: The load balancers will be upgraded to address a security vulnerability, enhance aFleX, and improve SNMP support within the individual partitions (in addition to other enhancements).

During the upgrade there may be brief periods of time where service becomes unavailable as the cluster changes roles, any such outages will automatically resolve quickly.

CMR: CHG0030748

Outage Type: UNSCHEDULED OUTAGE (AMENDED)
Date Submitted: Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0730 – TBD
Groups Impacted: Campus
Equipment: Wireless Network

Description: UPDATE: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:43am – Wireless service is restoring across campus, NOS is continuing to investigate the cause of the outage.

The wireless networks airbears2, eduroam, and calvisitor are not currently allowing new connections. The network team is investigating the issue.

CMR: CHG0030752

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted: Wednesday, June 7 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0001 – 0600
Groups impacted: See Below
Equipment: Comcast service to off-campus sites

Description: Comcast has informed the network team that maintenance will be performed on four network connections to off-site locations.

During the maintenance window each connection will experience a 2 hour outage, the specific times for each site is unknown.

Site that will experience an outage:

2400 Bancroft Way

Sites that have redundant service and should not lose network connectivity during the maintenance:

2850 Telegraph Ave
2601 Warring St, Room 102
1608 4th Street

Please direct any questions you may have regarding this announcement to: Sean Schluntz

CMR: CHG0030589

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Sunday, June 4, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 1000
Groups Impacted: bCourses Users
Equipment:bcourse.berkeley.edu

Description: ETS is deploying Junction v90 on Sunday, June 4, 2017 from 7:00am-10:00am. ETS has allotted additional time for preparations, full application testing, and mitigation should any issues arise

Rollback procedures (from updated version to previous version) will be tested prior to the deployment date.

CMR: CHG0030701

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted: Monday, June 5, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0600 – 0700
Groups impacted: DHCP Clients
Equipment: DHCP

Description: Maintenance will be performed on one of the network DHCP servers, during that time some computers will experience delays in receiving network addresses or mail fail to receive a network address until the maintenance is complete.

Please direct any questions you may have regarding this announcement to: Sean Schluntz

CMR: CHG0030732

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted: Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0530 – 0700
Groups impacted: Airbears2, CalVisitor, and eduroam Users
Equipment: Wireless

Description: Maintenance will be performed on some of the servers providing authentication for the AirBears2, CalVisitor, and eduroam wireless networks.

During the maintenance window there will be no outage, but some users may experience delays in accessing the wireless networks.

Please direct any questions you may have regarding this announcement to: Sean Schluntz

CMR: CHG0030723

Outage Type: SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
Date Submitted: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0600 – 0700
Groups impacted: DHCP Clients
Equipment: DHCP

Description: Maintenance will be performed on one of the network DHCP servers, during that time some computers will experience delays in receiving network addresses or mail fail to receive a network address until the maintenance is complete.

Please direct any questions you may have regarding this announcement to: Sean Schluntz

CMR: CHG0030725

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Sunday, June 4, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0700 – 0900
Groups Impacted: CalCentral Users
Equipment: calcentral.berkeley.edu

Description: Production CalCentral will be unavailable Sunday June 4thfrom 7:00am-9:00am to release new features.

CMR: CHG0030701

Outage Type: UNSCHEDULED OUTAGE
Start Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 1115 – TBD
Groups Impacted: Banway Building
Equipment:

Description: UPDATE: Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 3:00pm – After a power outage this morning, IST brought a 13-slot network switch back online at the Banway Building around 12 noon. However, the switch has since gone back down due to un-recoverable damage. IST is working to replace it with new network equipment, with an ETA of May 31, 12 noon to restore service. AirBears2/eduroam WiFi network connectivity is currently available.

The CSS-IT Service Desk is receiving reports of network connectivity issues with wired network connections in the Banway Building.

IST staff are working quickly to identify the source of the outage and to restore services as quickly as possible.

CMR: CHG0030732

Outage Type: UNSCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 2300 – TBD
Groups Impacted: All Taske ACD Users
Equipment: Taske ACD Reporting Application Server 1

Description: The Taske ACD Web portal is currently down and vendor is not available. IST Telecom will reach out to the vendor first thing Thursday morning.

CMR:TBD

Outage Type: SCHEDULED OUTAGE
Date Submitted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Outage Start/End Time: 0600 – 0700
Groups Impacted: Sproul North Basement
Equipment: 169.229.133.0/24

Description: Due to network upgrade to new equipment, the following subnet will experience an outage while being cut over, however this will only affect the north end of the building.

169.229.133.0/24

This outage will be on Tuesday, May 30th, 6:00am-7:00am. Although an hour is scheduled, individual hosts will only be down for a few seconds as they are moved from the ancient switch to the shiny new switch.

The entire cut over will likely be about 20 minutes, but an hour is scheduled to allow for unforeseen challenges.

Please direct any questions you may have regarding this announcement to: Jay Bryon

CMR: CHG0030718