The site can also be used by customers and lab employees who are having difficulty connecting to lab services to verify that no disruption has taken place and all services are available. The Emergency Status Information Line is: 1-800-445-583
[Completed] Personnel Accountability Drill on Monday May 7, 2018
Berkeley Lab is conducting a Lab wide personnel accountability test. The entire laboratory community is expected to participate.
Information on the purpose of this test and the messages sent during the test are available here.
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29 Jan 2018, 1:04PM-3:45PM
Unplanned outage of incoming phone calls to the Laboratory due to failure of circuit between LBL and AT&T. Intermittent inbound calls were possible during some of this outage.
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19 January 2018, 1:00 PM
In the event of a government shutdown at midnight tonight, Berkeley Lab will be open for normal operations on Monday, Jan. 22.
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4 January 2018, 6:21 AM
The Laboratory is operating on normal status and all services are available.
No impact on Lab operations from the 4.4 Magnitude earthquake on the Hayward Fault at 2:39 AM.
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19 December 2017, 3:30PM - Wildland Fire Drill
This is a drill.
Zones 1 and 2, and Blackberry Gate, are open for vehicle traffic.
This is a drill.
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19 December 2017, 3:03PM - Wildland Fire
This is a drill.
Zones 1 and 2 are released from the Foothill Parking Lot. Personnel may return to the Lab by shuttle or foot. Personnel may also take the shuttle or walk to the Berkeley BART station. Use approved walkways and proceed with caution.
Zones 3, 4, 5, and 6 are released from their shelters. Please use caution when walking back to your building.
Personnel in Zone 7 are released from their shelters.
This is a drill.
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19 December 2017, 1:51PM - Wildland Fire
This is a drill. The Lab’s Emergency Management Team is conducting a rapid mass evacuation/shelter drill today starting at 2:30 p.m.
Persons at the Lab should follow evacuation instructions based on their current zone location.
Zone 3 – Personnel in Zone 3 are to shelter-in-place and will be asked to relocate to a pre-identified shelter (Buildings 15, 30, 33, and 80) for the duration of the drill.
Zone 4 – Personnel in Zone 4 will evacuate the site via personal car through Grizzly Gate and will not return to the site. Personnel that do not have a personal car will relocate to a pre-identified shelter (Buildings 75, 76, 77A, 78, and 79).
Zone 6 – Personnel in Zone 6 will evacuate via personal car through Strawberry Gate and will not return to the site until the following day. Personnel that do not have a personal car will relocate to a pre-identified shelter (Buildings 74, 84, and 85).
The zone map is also available online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_4br-UEuxkTUVNGTkpaVVlSTzA/view
This is a drill.
THIS IS A DRILL
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16 December 2017, 9:30AM-1:30PM - commons.lbl.gov was down for a scheduled upgrade- RESOLVED
The commons.lbl.gov server was offline as the Confluence software was upgraded for security reasons along with new features added in version 6.x of the application.
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11 October 2017, 8:06 AM : Laboratory LDAP Sign-in disrupted for some users--RESOLVED
7:40 AM : Laboratory LDAP Sign-in disrupted for some users
The IT Division is responding to user reports of problems logging into systems using LDAP authentication. This problem was first reported early this morning and we will provide updates as we diagnose the problem.
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October 4, 2017 5AM - A power issue is impacting 50a, 50c, and 50e and these buildings are currently without power. Facilities is investigating. Buildings 50 and 50B currently have power, but did experience a voltage sag during the event. Access to these buildings is currently restricted (7AM)
Previous Events
September 7 2017 Google Drive Service Disruption. Services restored
August 19-21 2017 Electrical Power Disruption. Services restored
August 2-3 2017: Fire and Power Event. Services restored.
May 9-10 2017: Major sitewide power outage. Services restored.
March 13 2017: Unscheduled outage of outbound and inbound calling. Service restored.
Feb 21 2017: 7PM Multiple server outages for scheduled maintenance including commons. Expected return to service by 10PM tonight.
May 8, 2016: Maintenance for Financial System May 6 Noon - May 8 8AM 2016
April 25, 2016: Voicemail system outage. Lab users are unable to leave or retrieve Lab voicemails - RESOLVED
Feb 18, 2016: Unscheduled major network outage impacting many parts of LBL. - RESOLVED
Dec 18, 2015: Post 5pm minor outages scheduled for login.lbl.gov, email lists, and other service. More details here>>>. - RESOLVED
Dec 27-29, 2015: Numerous small outages scheduled for offsite buildings and substantial outages scheduled on the main site for Dec 28th. More details here>>>> - RESOLVED
Dec 25, 2015: Unscheduled outage of identity management (login, ldap, AD, Pledge/OTP etc) - RESOLVED
Nov 7, 2015: Onsite Power Outage. Details here>>> - RESOLVED
Oct 15, 2015: www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, newscenter.lbl.gov problem resolved. 1:03pm. - RESOLVED
Oct 15, 2015: We are experiencing an outage on www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, and newscenter.lbl.gov starting at approximately 12:15pm. The service provider is in the process of restoring those sites. We will update this page when new information is available. - RESOLVED
Oct 9, 2015: Drive problem resolved. 1:40pm - RESOLVED
Oct 9, 2015: Google Drive is experiencing an outage which started at approximately 11:30am. Drive is coming back as of 1:15pm, but access to sheets continues to be an issue. - RESOLVED
July 11, 2015 Power Outage - RESOLVED
Feb 27, 2015 Power Outage - RESOLVED
Feb 2, 2015: Scheduled outage for www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, newscenter.lbl.gov and other hosted wordpress sites - RESOLVED
Dec 26, 2014: MAJOR IT OUTAGE COMPLETE *** - RESOLVED
Aug 24, 2014: Following this morning's 6.0 Napa earthquake, Berkeley Lab staff are conducting a coordinated damage assessment of the Lab site. --Resolved
July 11, 2014 2PM: We're making changes to www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, and newscenter.lbl.gov - RESOLVED
May 16, 2014: Scheduled downtime for www and several other applications until 9pm. - RESOLVED
Mar 14, 2014 Minor Scheduled Maintenance 6-9pm, www.lbl.gov and selected additional systems.- RESOLVED
Jan 17, 2014 Major outage of IT Systems scheduled for Friday Jan 17th 6pm-10pm More Most services restored by 8.30PM- RESOLVED
Dec 30, 2013 at 12:15PM there was a problem during a scheduled electrical maintenance activity. Connectivity was restored at 4:05PM. - RESOLVED
Dec 13, 2013 at 6PM - Major outage of IT provided services. information>>>- RESOLVED
Nov 6, 2013: The power distribution hardware described in the incident this morning failed again around 12:30PM today, impacting www, mail delivery, commons, and many other services. It was resolved around 12:48.- RESOLVED
Nov 6, 2013: We experienced an outage of www, commons, and email delivery due to the failure of a piece of power distribution hardware in the datacenter. Services have been restored. - RESOLVED
April 2, 2012: LBNL experienced technical problem with the main Lab web server (www.lbl.gov) from 6:30pm to 7:00pm.- RESOLVED
July 26, 2012: We conducted a test of our website disaster recovery procedure from 5:00pm to 5:15pm Thursday, July 26, 2012. During the test, users attempting to access www.lbl.gov were redirected to this site.- RESOLVED
July 5, 2012: We conducted a test of our website disaster recovery procedure from 7:00pm to 7:15pm Thursday, July 5, 2012. During the test, users attempting to access www.lbl.gov were redirected to this site.- RESOLVED
June 8, 2012: Due to an emergency outage, Berkeley Lab experienced a loss of Internet connectivity. Email, voicemail, and other IT services were impacted.- RESOLVED
Dec 2-3 2011 Outage is Complete. All systems are operational. - RESOLVED
For Google Apps for Berkeley Lab Status Information Click Here.
Note that this link shows status information for all Google Apps services, not just those provided to LBL, so an issue may display there that doesn't impact us.
Recent Networking Events Are Recorded Here:
