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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Scheduled Blackboard system maintenance – Friday, January 17, 2014, 5 AM – 8 AM

The Blackboard database will be moved to new storage on Friday, January 17, 2014 between 5 AM and 8 AM.  Blackboard will not be available during this period.  All other systems and applications accessed through the my.ryerson portal (including RAMSS) will still be available during this time frame. This change is necessary and it is one hour longer than our regular 6 am to 8 am maintenance window on Friday.

We apologize for any inconvenience.
-Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage on Thursday, January 9, 2014 from 11:04 AM to 12:22 PM

On Thursday, January 9, 2014, during an attempt to add a VLAN to a network switch, a broadcast storm occurred. This caused a slow down for various services, including CFAPS where user data and shared departmental folders exist. The outage lasted  from 11:04 AM to 11:07 AM and again from 12:19 PM to 12:22 PM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Network outage on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:25 PM – 2:35 PM

On Wednesday, January 8, 2014, during an attempt to add a redundant link to a network switch, a configuration error occurred. This caused a network outage for the One Card readers in the East side of the campus . The outage lasted  from 2:25 PM to 2:35 PM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Network Outage Sunday 5 January, 2014 from 11:15 to 11:18 PM

On Sunday January 5, 2014, an emergency reboot of the packet shaping appliances had to be done to clear some intermittent memory errors.  This caused a disconnection from the Internet from 11:15 AM to 11:18 PM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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LDAP error: Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 4:25 AM – 9 PM

Starting around 4:25 AM on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, one of the LDAP servers experienced some database indexing problems, causing some e-mail messages to queue up and not be delivered in a timely manner.   The server was rebooted around 9 PM on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 and the queued up e-mail is expected to be delivered within a couple of hours.  We will keep monitoring the system to see if there are any further problems.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Network Outage – Wednesday, December 18, 2013 from 10:23 AM to 11:35 AM

On Wednesday December 18, 2013, during an attempt to add a software license for a redundant firewall, the primary firewall stopped passing traffic. This caused a network outage for the wired connections at the library offices, SCC, Architecture, Health Centre, Civil Engineering and JOR. The outage lasted  from 10:23 AM to 11:35 AM.

Please accept our apologies for the outage.

-Computing and Communications Services

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RMS outage: Admin, Self Service and Activation – Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 10:58 AM – 11:06 AM

The back-end server that all RMS web applications (Admin, Self Service and Activation)  connect to became unresponsive starting at 10:58 AM this morning.  The server was restarted and services were  fully restored at 11:06 AM.  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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Intermittent LDAP authentication failures – Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 07:05 AM AM – 12:30 PM

One of the LDAP servers used to authenticate users logging in to my.ryerson, Blackboard, eHR, Confluence, Jira and other applications experienced intermittent problems between 7:05 AM and 12:30 PM.  Users connected to this server may have received a “incorrect password” message.  This server has been taken out of service for further investigation.

We apologize for the service disruption.

– Computing and Communications Services

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