Ryecast live webcast unavailable – Friday June 15, 2012

The live webcast of the Ryecast system is currently unavailable.

We are investigating the issue an hope to restore service shortly.

Friday morning convocation ceremonies are being recorded and will be available to view when the Ryecast service is available.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Computing and Communications Services

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UPDATE: Service Affected for Wireless Access Points in the West/South corner of the Campus – 14:00 June15, 2012

UPDATE:

The issue with RU-Secure has been identified by the vendor. It is a combination of exceeding the allowed number of VLANs per SSID and a bug in the current code that disables some SSIDs due to a buffer overflow.
The number of VLANs has been reduced and the wireless access points will be re-booted gradually to maintain connectivity for the users who are currently connected through “Ryerson” SSID.

At 8:00 am, service was affected to the Wireless Access Points in the West/South corner of the Campus (ENG, RCC, SCC, GCM, ILC, SID & SBB). The Access Points were broadcasting the “Ryerson” SSID only, preventing users of the RU-Secure SSID from accessing the WiFi network in those areas. The wireless controller to where these Access Points are attached will be re-booted.

The cause is under investigation.

We apologize for the service interruption.

Computing and Communications Services.

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

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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Groupwise service interruption – June 13, 7:00 AM – 8:18 AM

At approximately 7:00 a.m. a GroupWise server, GWPOS3, stopped responding, affecting e-mail services for Schools (faculty and some admin staff).  The server was restarted at approximately 8:18 a.m. and service was restored.

We apologize for the service disruption.

– Computing and Communications Services

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OGF (Finance) system outage: Tuesday, June 12 2012 07:40 AM

At approximately 7:40 AM, Tuesday June 12, the OGF database server crashed due to a hardware failure. The failure affects Oracle Financials and Markview. Tech Support is currently on its way to investigate the problem. An update will be provided shortly.

UPDATE: The root cause of the problem seems to be a failed power supply on an IBM SAN switch (no redundancy supported).    IBM Support has been contacted, but the system will likely be unavailable for ~3 hours.   In the interim, technical support will investigate the possibility to move affected systems to another switch and recover systems before the failed switch is fixed.

UPDATE 2: The system will be unavailable all morning.

UPDATE 3: The vendor shipped the wrong part and the correct part is being shipped.  We now expect to recover the system by mid-afternoon.

UPDATE: The OGF & Markview services were restored just before 6:00 AM on Wednesday, June 13.  

-Computing and Communications Services

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CS/RAMSS outage: Tuesday, June 12 2012 07:40 AM

At approximately 7:40 AM, Tuesday June 12, the CS/RAMSS system started experiencing problems due to a hardware failure. The failure is likely related to the OGF (Finance system problem), as both use the same SAN (Storage Area Network) for storage.   Tech Support is currently investigating the problem. An update will be provided shortly.

UPDATE: The root cause of the problem seems to be a failed power supply on an IBM SAN switch (no redundancy supported).    IBM Support has been contacted, but the system will likely be unavailable for ~3 hours.   In the interim, technical support will investigate the possibility to move affected systems to another switch and recover systems before the failed switch is fixed.

UPDATE 2: CS/RAMSS will be unavailable all morning.

UPDATE 3: The vendor shipped the wrong part and the correct part is being shipped.  We now expect to recover the system by mid-afternoon.

UPDATE: CS/RAMSS is available, as of approximately 2:50 PM.

-Computing and Communications Services

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GroupWise web & internet access unavailable: Tuesday, June 11, 2012 10:52 PM – 11:48 PM

A failure with one of the GroupWise systems (GW1) caused the GroupWise Web & Internet mail delivery to become unavailable around 10:52 PM on Tuesday, June 11.   Services were restored at approximately 11:48 PM.

We apologize for the service disruption.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Wireless service disruption: Monday, June 11 2012 08:30 AM

At approximately 8:30AM on Monday, June 11, we became aware of an intermittent wireless connectivity problem.  Following a preliminary investigation, one of the redundant links connecting to one of the wireless controllers was disabled around 9:00AM to eliminate the intermittent connection problem.  Network Services will investigate further to determine the cause of the link failure.  The areas affected  included the Library, Podium and Jorgenson buildings, as well as 415 Yonge Street.

Please accept our apologies for the disruption in service.

-Computing and Communications Services

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

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 and SoapBox will not be available during this time frame.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

-Computing and Communications Services

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Blackboard application server issues – Thursday, June 5, 2012

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 sessions dropped.

CCS is still working with the vendor to get the official patch for this issue.

We apologize for the service interruption.

-Computing and Communications Services

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