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my.ryerson service outage: Friday, May 30 2014

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Casey Carvalho

We are experiencing intermittent loss of connectivity to the my.ryerson portal database.   Emergency work will be required at some time later today or over the weekend to address the problem. Once we have more information, we will provide an update … Continue reading →

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my.ryerson service disruption: Friday May 30 2014, 7:11 AM – 9:15 AM

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Hongbo HE

One of the my.ryerson portal servers became unresponsive at approximately 7:11 AM. This caused a service disruption for users who were using  this server.  The server was restarted at 9:15 AM and service was restored. We are continuing to investigate … Continue reading →

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www.ryerson.ca unresponsive: Monday, May 19, 2014 1:30AM – 9:15AM

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Casey Carvalho

Starting around 1:30 AM this morning, the www.ryerson.ca website stopped responding or responding intermittently.  Technical staff were contacted and restarted the service at 9:15 AM. We apologize for the service disruption. -Computing and Communications Services

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GuardCard outage: Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 2 PM

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Casey Carvalho

On Thursday, May 15, 2014, around 2 pm, the GuardCard system became unresponsive due to a firmware SAN switch problem that surfaced while carrying out scheduled maintenance work.  The GuardCard system is used by the OneCard office to access & … Continue reading →

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Intermittent Network Access on Wednesday April 30, 2014 from 7:00 to 7:55 AM

Posted on April 30, 2014 by michael

On Wednesday April 30, 2014 between 7:00 and 7:55 AM, one of the core network switches had intermittent port failures which caused a general intermittent network outage. The switch had to be rebooted at 7:45 to resume the services. We … Continue reading →

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Slow network for Mac OSX April 14 to April 16, 2014

Posted on April 16, 2014 by michael

An incompatibility has been identified between certain versions of Maverick OSX and the Sophos 9.0.6 threat prevention module. This incompatibility caused severe slowness for web browsing on these devices. A newer version of Sophos has been deployed that alleviates the … Continue reading →

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my.ryerson service disruption: Monday April 7 2014, 5:10 PM – 6:58 PM

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Hongbo HE

One of the my.ryerson portal servers became unresponsive at approximately 5:10 PM today and caused a service disruption for users who were on this server.  This server was restarted at 6:58 PM and the service was restored. We are continuing … Continue reading →

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Voice Mail Outage: Tuesday April 2, 2014 from 7:33 to 7:39 AM

Posted on April 2, 2014 by michael

On Tuesday April 2, 2014 at 7:33 AM, the Call-Pilot Voice Mail server had to be rebooted to clear a hung trunk line. Users were unable to access their voice mail during the server reboot. Services were resumed  at 7:39 … Continue reading →

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VoIP Phones outage: March 31, 2014 from 8:20 PM to April 1, 2014 8:30 AM

Posted on April 1, 2014 by michael

On Monday March 31, 2014 at 8:20 PM, the VoIP phones’ server failed. The vendor was called and a reboot of the entire PBX phone switch had to be done to bring the VoIP server up. Services were resumed on … Continue reading →

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Phone outage: April 1, 2014 from 8:20 to 8:30 AM

Posted on April 1, 2014 by michael

On Tuesday April 1, 2014 at 8:20 AM, the entire PBX phone switch had to be rebooted to fix a problem with the VoIP phones. This caused an outage for all phones and call centres all over campus. Services were … Continue reading →

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