Network outage for Library 2nd floor on Thursday February 13, 2014 from 7:30 AM to 9:30AM

On Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 7:30 AM, a configuration error in a network switch servicing the library 2nd floor prevented the library computers from renewing their IP address lease. The configuration was fixed at 9:30 AM  and services resumed for the affected computers.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Scheduled Central Authentication Service (CAS) maintenance: Thursday, February 6, 2014 from 6:15 am to 6:45 am

On Thursday, February 6, 2014 between 6:15 am and 6:45 am, CCS will perform necessary system maintenance on Ryerson’s Central Authentication Service (CAS) that controls the login process to my.ryerson.ca, Google Apps at Ryerson, and other services. CAS users may experience intermittent access issues.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
-Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage for academic labs on Friday January 31, 2014 from 00:04 AM to 2:17 AM

On Friday, January 31, 2014, at 00:04 AM the network switch servicing the academic labs at KHW-071 and some of the management subnets became unresponsive. The switch recovered on its own at 2:17 AM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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RMS outage – Admin, Self Service and Activation – Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The back-end server that all RMS web applications (Admin, Self Service and Activation)  connect to became unresponsive starting at 11:00 AM this morning.  The application services were restarted and full services were restored around noon.  We continue to investigate the cause.  RMS is the system that makes possible account activation at http://www.ryerson.ca/accounts/ and provides the password change, Google Token setup  and other features via “manage my online resources” inside the my.ryerson.ca portal.

Please accept our apologies for the disruption in service.

-Computing and Communications Services

 

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www.ryerson.ca service interuption: Friday, January 31, 2014

On Friday, January 31, 2014, the installation of new code on the www.ryerson.ca server at approximately 7:30 AM, caused 4 sites to not load correctly.

The sites affected were:

 

The code was rolled back and service restored at approximately 10:45 AM

We apologize for any inconvenience

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Network outage on Wednesday January 29 from 6:41 PM to Thursday January 30 at 7:50 AM at POD 2nd floor

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at 6:41 PM a portion of a network switch servicing 20 connections at the 2nd floor POD building failed. The switch had to be replaced and services were resumed on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Ryerson Gmail service interuption on Friday, January 24, 2014

On Friday, January 24, 2014 starting at approximately 2:00 PM the Ryerson Gmail service became unavailable.  This service disruption only applies to Gmail and appears to affect the consumer Gmail as well.

CCS is attempting to contact Google support and will update this post as soon as more information becomes available.

– Computing and Communications Services

 

 

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External voice mail pre-greeting prompt change: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 between 8:30 AM and 9:45 AM the external voice mail greeting pre-prompt recording has been over-written by one of the phone administrators’ own greetings. The prompt has been restored back to the default one at 9:45 AM.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Licensing server disruption – Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 4:00PM – Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 8:00AM

On Sunday, January  19th 2014, around 4 PM, one of the licensing servers stopped responding, affecting the use of the following applications:

  • Autodesk products
  • Matlab
  • SPSS
  • Fashion Studio
  • IBM Rational Rose

Services were restored this morning at 8 AM for all applications, except the Fashion Studio application.  We are working with the vendor to restore this service ASAP.

We apologize for any inconvenience.
-Computing and Communications Services

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LDAP error: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 4:25 AM – 8:15 AM

Starting around 4:25 AM on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, two LDAP servers experienced database indexing problems, causing some e-mail messages to queue up and not be delivered in a timely manner.   The services were restarted and full services restored as of 8:15 AM.  The queued up e-mail is expected to be delivered within a couple of hours.  We will continue our investigation to determine the cause of the problem.
Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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