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Major system outage due to a switch failure

At approximately 9:30 AM this morning, there was a switch failure within the storage area network that supports many of Ryerson’s core systems. Continue reading

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Perimeter Firewall Reboot

CCS has scheduled a reboot of our Internet gateway firewall to correct problems related to high-bandwidth video streaming over CANet. Continue reading

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Momentary VoIP Phone and Voice Mail Outage

At around 12:00 p.m. today two telephone related outages occurred simultaneously and lasted for approximately 15 minutes. Continue reading

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Stopping Spam From Leaving Ryerson

Every month a small number of Ryerson e-mail (RMail) accounts are compromised and used to send bulk junk mail (spam) from Ryerson. Continue reading

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Don’t Give Away Your Ryerson Password

Please do not respond to any emails that request confidential information like credit card numbers, passwords or other personal data. Continue reading

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Major System Outage Due to Network Connection Problem in Data Centre

At around 3:07 PM on Wednesday, Nov. 24, there was a temporary network connection failure on a link between a cluster of load balancers. Continue reading

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Winter Break Notice for Electrical Shutdown: Dec. 23 – Jan. 3

Important announcement about power outages and building access during the winter holidays. Continue reading

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Internet Access Disruption

Internet Service to some Ryerson systems such as RMail and the my.ryerson.ca portal was disrupted today at 11:20 AM for approximately 15 minutes due to a configuration problem with the packet shaping device that prioritizes network traffic coming into Ryerson. Continue reading

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Slow Internet Access at Ryerson Update

Network traffic coming into Ryerson including peer-to-peer and file downloading is now being controlled as normal. Continue reading

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Slow Internet Access at Ryerson

At 4:45 pm, Thursday, October 28, the device that prioritizes network traffic coming in to Ryerson from the Internet failed and could not be repaired. Continue reading

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