The Blackboard system went down at around 1:09 PM this afternoon, Monday, July 15. The cause of the problem seems to be related to a SAN (Storage Area Network) switch failure. We are investigating the problem and working on restoring services as soon as possible. We will provide updates as the situation progresses.
Update #1: We are currently in the process of verifying that the Blackboard database is OK. We expect this process to take 15-30 minutes. If there are no issues, we’ll restore services afterwards.
Update #2: The database checks indicated that everything was OK with the database and full services have been restored, as of ~ 2:40 PM.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
– Computing and Communications Services