Category Archives: Blackboard

my.ryerson Unresponsive: Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 7:10 AM

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

The my.ryerson portal is currently unresponsive (it takes ten minutes to log in), as of 7:10 AM this morning. Technical support has been contacted. Update 8:30 AM: The portal has returned to service but without the courses and organizations module. To access your … Continue reading →

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my.ryerson.ca scheduled outage: Tuesday, Sept. 18 2012 00:01 AM – 00:30 AM

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

To address a recurring problem that causes the my.ryerson portal to become unresponsive, CCS will make some configuration changes to the my.ryerson.ca portal and the Web service that caused the problem. Access to my.ryerson.ca may be intermittent during the change planned … Continue reading →

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Rmail, my.ryerson outages – Mon. August 27, 2012

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brian Lesser

Early this morning a device on our Storage Area network failed. As a result disk storage for Rmail, my.ryerson, Blackboard, and other systems went offline. (Other services like RAMSS and eHR are not reachable when my.ryerson is down.) We are … Continue reading →

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Intermittent my.ryerson.ca login problem – Friday, Aug. 24, 2012

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

One of the Central Authentication System (CAS) servers that allows you to log into my.ryerson.ca and other systems experienced a problem this morning.   This caused some users to experience an authentication failure when attempting to login to my.ryerson.ca or other … Continue reading →

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Intermittent LDAP authentication failures – Friday, July 27, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

Various LDAP servers used for authentication experienced high CPU load this morning, causing intermittent response for various applications, includuing my.ryerson, Blackboard, eHR, Confluence, Jira and others.   The problem started around 8:00 AM and was resolved around 9:30 AM, following a … Continue reading →

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my.ryerson.ca, Blackboard, eHR, RAMSS service disruption: Friday, July 20 2012 7:21 AM – 7:34 AM

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

A scheduled firewall upgrade carried out this morning temporarily disrupted my.ryerson and applications accessed through the portal, including Blackboard, eHR and RAMSS.    The service disruption started around 7:21 AM and lasted until 7:34 AM. We apologize for the service disruption. … Continue reading →

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Blackboard application issue with one of the servers: Friday, June 22 2012 10:07 AM

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Casey Carvalho

At approximately 10:07 AM today, Friday June 22, one of the five Blackboard application servers started experiencing intermittent slow access response. The server is being removed from the load balance pool and will be rebooted later to clear the problem. We … Continue reading →

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my.ryerson portal unavailable due to system maintenance: Friday, June 15 2012, 6 am – 7:48 am

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Branka Halilovic

my.ryerson and all applications accessed through the my.ryerson portal were uvailable this morning, Friday, June 16 between 6 am – 7:48 am due to scheduled work being done during our preventive maintenance window. We apologize for any inconvenience. -Computing and Communications Services

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Scheduled Blackboard outage: Sunday, June 10, 2012 between 6 am and 7 am

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Branka Halilovic

On Sunday, June 10, 2012 between 6 am and 7 am, we will apply a software patch that is designed to resolve the Blackboard memory leak issue that has been causing problems since we upgraded to Blackboard 9.1. Blackboard, RAMSS … Continue reading →

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Blackboard application server issues – Thursday, June 5, 2012

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Branka Halilovic

At approximately 1 pm today, we started experiencing memory resource issues with one of the five Blackboard application servers. The server crashed and was restarted around 1:10 pm. Users who were connected to this particular server may have had their … Continue reading →

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