Author Archives: Casey Carvalho

Interruption of DHCP Services in KHW71 lab – Monday, June 6, 2016 2 PM – 4:30 PM

At approx 2 PM on Monday, June 6, 2016 almost all the desktops in the general purpose KHW71 lab lost communication with the DHCP services, preventing access by users.   The issue was resolved around 4:30 PM. The root cause for … Continue reading

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Multiple service disruption due to server crash: Saturday, May 14, 2016 16:03 PM – 17:20 PM

One of the physical servers that hosts various virtual machines (VMs) crashed on Saturday, May 14 at approximately 4:03 PM.   The server crash resulted in various service outages, including lab printing services.  The server was rebooted and services were … Continue reading

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REB/RIS application service outage: Friday, May 6 2016 4:30PM – Saturday, May 7 2016 5AM

The Research Information System (RIS) and Research Ethics Board (REB) application became unavailable after 4:30 PM on Friday, May 6, 2016 following planned maintenance.   A restart of the application was performed on Saturday, May 7 around 5 AM  to restore … Continue reading

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www.ryerson.ca outage: Thursday May 5, 2016 3:42 AM – 7:33 AM

The www.ryerson.ca website became unavailable overnight, starting at 3:42 AM.  The services were restarted at 7:33 AM.   Preliminary investigation indicates that the problem was due to application processes that stopped responding.    CCS administrators are continuing the investigation. We apologize for any … Continue reading

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Academic lab printing disruption: Friday, April 29, 2016

At approximately 8:50am on Friday, April 29,  academic lab printing started experiencing slowness when downloading a required print  driver at user login time. The issue manifests itself via  a pop-up message indicating that the Windows Printer Installation is Looking for a driver…  … Continue reading

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RU-VPN2 service outage: Friday April 1, 2016 8AM – 8:30AM

RU-VPN2 was not available this morning, Friday, April 1st, from 8AM – 8:30AM due to a failure to start the service following system maintenance.   A configuration change  has been implemented to auto-start the service after a server reboot to avoid … Continue reading

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VAPPS outage: Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 12:15 PM

At approximately 12:15 PM on Friday, Feb. 19, the launching of VAPPS applications stopped working.   Technical staff are investigating the problem. Update:  The issue was resolved at 1:15 PM. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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Active Directory and wireless service disruption: Friday Jan. 29 12:49pm-1:27pm

At approximately 12:47 pm, a physical server running multiple virtual machines, including the main Active Directory server, started experiencing problems.  This meant that by 12:55 pm some people could not log into Ryerson’s wireless network. Services were restored at 1:27 pm. … Continue reading

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Internet connectivity disruption: Tuesday Dec. 8, 2015 15:55 PM – 16:05 PM

On Tuesday, Dec. 8 2015, one of Ryerson University’s internet links failed due to a service interruption from the service provider’s side (GTANet), resulting in its internet traffic failing over to another backup link from a secondary service provider (Cogent).   … Continue reading

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my.ryerson, RMS, CAS outage: Friday, Oct. 30, 2015

A planned migration of my.ryerson, RMS and CAS to new hardware scheduled from 6 AM – 8 AM today, Friday Oct. 30 took longer than expected, completing at approximately 8:20 AM, 20 minutes late. During this period, the systems were … Continue reading

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