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

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 AM .

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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

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 April 1, 2014 at 8:30 AM .

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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

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 restored  at 8:30 AM .

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Network Outage: Sunday March 30, 2014 from 5:35 to 6:50 PM

On Sunday March 30, 2014 and between 5:35 to 6:50 PM, CCS received alerts about intermittent Internet access. CCS staff are trying to validate the alerts and find the root cause.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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my.ryerson uPortal service disruption: Tuesday, March 25 2014 4:15 PM – 6:49 PM

At approximately 4:15 PM, on Tuesday, March 26, CCS became aware that one of the my.ryerson.ca portal application servers stopped responding, causing some users to fail to authenticate when connecting to the portal.    Technical support staff corrected the problem around 6:49 PM.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

-Computing and Communications Services

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RMail service disruption: Friday, March 14, 2014 5:30 PM – Monday, March 17, 2014 1:15 PM

Since Friday, March 14 at 5:30 pm, two of the RMail servers experienced intermittent connectivity problem due to a networking issue.  Web Mail (https://mail.ryerson.ca) users connected to these servers were experiencing slow service. GMail users’ access were not affected. The networking issue was resolved at 1:15 pm, Monday, March 17 and the service has returned to normal.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

– Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage: Friday, March 14, 2014 7:11 AM – 7:35 AM

On Friday, March 14, 2014, at 7:11 AM, CCS added an additional firewall to the existing user subnets to provide extra redundancy. However, the new firewall took over prematurely and caused a network outage on the user subnets. Services were resumed at 7:35 AM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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my.ryerson landing page error message: Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 6:10 AM – Monday, Mar. 3, 2014 4:02 PM

Since Friday, Feb. 28 6:10 AM,  one of the my.ryerson portal servers produced a “uPortal error” message below the CCS Alerts area in the landing page for some users. The reason was that the server was not restarted properly during  routine maintenance at 6:10 AM on Friday, Feb. 28.   The server was restarted at 4:02 PM today and the landing page error message has been fixed.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 6:15 AM to 7:50 AM

On Friday, February 21, 2014, at 6:15 AM, CCS replaced the existing Internet facing firewall with a newer and much faster firewall. This caused an outage for the incoming and outgoing Internet traffic such as access to email and to Ryerson’s web server. The new firewall became operational at 7:50 AM. Email messages that were sent or received between 6:15 AM and 7:50 AM were queued for delivery and it may take a few hours before they showing up on users’ mailboxes.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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RAMSS outage: Sunday, Feb. 16 2014, 2:05PM

A SAN hardware failure occurred this afternoon, Sunday, Feb 16, shortly after 2 PM.    The RAMSS services are currently unavailable.   Technical staff is onsite to address the problem and vendor support has been contacted.   Updates will be provided periodically, until services are restored.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 11:04 PM: RAMSS service has been restored at 11:04 PM.

Computing and Communications Services

 

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