At approximately 5:40 PM one of the GroupWise servers (GW1) experienced a severe error that disrupted web access to Groupwise, as well as processing of incoming and outgoing e-mail. Services were restored around 7:15 PM.
We apologize for the service disruption.
– Computing and Communications Services
One of the various load balanced, front end LDAP servers used for service authentication stopped processing authentication requests. This would have been perceived by some users as an intermittent login failure to some applications. Some web based applications that require authentication may have been affected. Blackboard and other critical applications were not affected.
The proxy LDAP server was restarted around 3:50 PM today, and the problem was resolved.
We apologize for the service disruption.
– Computing and Communications Services
The Central Authentication System (CAS) that allows you to log into my.ryerson.ca and other systems was brought back online at approximately 8 PM. The problem with the devices that provide encryption (SSL) services for CAS was resolved by reconfiguring the devices. The work also required reissuing SSL certificates.
Please accept our apologies for the problems the outage caused.
-Computing and Communications Services
The Central Authentication System (CAS) that allows you to log into my.ryerson.ca and other systems is offline due to a hardware problem. The problem is with the device that provides encryption (SSL) services for CAS. The problem is related to the earlier problem with Webmail and began some time after the Webmail problem was resolved at 4:15.
CCS support staff are working to reconfigure the device.
Update at 7 PM: reconfiguring the SSL accelerator is slow painstaking work. We still don’t have an estimated time to resolve the problem.
Update at 8 PM: We believe the problem is resolved.
Please accept our apologies for the problems this outage is causing.
-Computing and Communications Services
At approximately 3:20 PM today, Monday Oct. 24, Webmail became unavailable. Technical staff are currently investigating the root cause of the problem. We’ll provide an update shortly.
UPDATE: Services were restored around 4:13 PM.
We apologize for the service disruption.
– Computing and Communications Services
We suspect that a recent Microsoft Windows update may have introduced some issues with drop-down fields in PeopleSoft applications, when invoked via my.ryerson (e.g.: eHR, SAS, OGF). The problem seems to be specific to Internet Explorer 7.
We are still investigating, but upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/internet-explorer/products/ie/home) appears to remedy the problem.
Computing and Communications Services
A compromised account started sending out spam overnight, causing delays in e-mail delivery starting around 11:30 PM last night and lasting until this morning around 10 AM.
Due to issues with Blackberry e-mail delivery notifications, on-call staff did not get alerts to the problem last night and only received the notification around 6 AM.
CCS started responding to the problem shortly after 6AM and by 10AM the problem has been cleared.
One website seems to have blocked us (comcast.net). We are investigating this and will take necessary measures to correct the problem.
We apologize for the service disruption.
– Computing and Communications Services
Blackberry users world-wide have been experiencing delays in e-mails, messaging and browsing. This was caused by a core switch failure in RIM’s infrastructure.
At approximately 11:00 am users noticed that their Sophos Anti-Virus signatures were not being updated. It was determined that the Sophos update server had run out of disk space and was unable to get new signatures,(dat files).
The disk space was increased, the update folders were refreshed and the updates were re-run.
At approximately 3:00 pm the problem was resolved and the Sophos Anti-Virus software updates was functioning normally.
We apologize for the inconvenience,
Computing and Communications Services
The wireless network services in TRS were down from 1:22 PM – 1:30 PM today, Oct. 07, 2011. A similar problem was experienced in the past and we’ve been working with the vendor to determine its root cause. We will pass the additional log information collected today to the vendor, to assist in a permanent resolution with this issue.
We apologize for the service disruption.
– Computing and Communications Services
