The E-mail queue backlog was cleared at roughly 9:45 pm today. E-mail message delivery has returned to normal.
-Computing and Communications Services
As of roughly noon today, the servers that filter mail arriving at Ryerson for junk mail and viruses are processing mail more slowly than normal due to a large amount of backlogged mail. As a result there will be significant delays between the time mail is delivered to Ryerson and when it arrives in your inbox. We are looking to see if the problem is the quantity of mail or if there is another problem.
Please accept our apologies for any problems the delay in delivering mail may cause.
-Computing and Communications Services
At 3:45 pm, July 3, 2011, access to major systems including R-Mail and my.ryerson.ca was interrupted again due to a problem with a redundant link on the firewall cluster that protects those systems.
This was a continuation of the previous problem that was started around 1:45 pm today. The problem appears to have been resolved by restarting a network switch in our main machine room.
We apologize for the interruption to services.
– Computing and Communications Services
At 1:45 pm, July 3, 2011, access to major systems including R-Mail and my.ryerson.ca was interrupted due to a problem with a redundant link on the firewall cluster that protects those systems.
The problem was resolved @ 2:53 pm. Access to all systems has been restored.
After 3:30 pm problems with the firewall cluster resurfaced. CCS staff are working to restore the system.
We apologize for the interruption to services.
Computing and Communications Services
The RU-VPN service stopped accepting new connections beginning Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 16:10 PM. The problem was traced to a failed process on one of our servers and fixed on the next morning by 9:00 AM.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this problem has caused.
-Computing and Communications Services
Following the upgrade to GroupWise 8 on our servers, we experienced three serious incidents last week where a post office became unresponsive. The vendor, Novell, recommended we apply a performance patch to our GroupWise servers and update the server operating system. The GroupWise patches were applied on Saturday and the operating systems updated on Sunday. We hope these changes will resolve the GroupWise performance issues we experienced last week and will continue to monitor the system carefully.
-Computing and Communications Services
Overnight, one of the Groupwise Post Office servers became unresponsive. The post offices affected were CSC and PO1. Anyone whose Email resides in those post offices was not able to access Groupwise.
Full services were restored at approximately 8:15 AM this morning.
Please accept our apologies for this unplanned outage.
-Computing and Communications Services
The server hosting GroupWise Post Office #2 froze at 2:58 pm today. The server was restarted and service resumed at 3:08 pm.
A ticket is currently open with Novell regarding problems with this server.
-Computing and Communications Services
Following Saturday’s upgrade of our Groupwise servers to Groupwise 8, one of our Groupwise servers (PO2) began performing very poorly. At times the system was so slow that it was impossible to log in. The vendor has suggested we apply a software patch to resolve the problem. The patch will be applied at 9 PM this evening during a brief outage.
– Computing and Communications Services
Ryerson’s Central Authentication Service (CAS) stopped working correctly on Tuesday, June 14 around 5:45 PM. The problem was traced to an intermittent connection problem that was fixed at 6:55 PM. CAS is the system that controls access to the my.ryerson.ca portal and therefore applications such as RAMSS, eHR, and the Blackboard Learning Management System. During the outage many people could not log into the my.ryerson.ca portal and the applications it hosts. We are investigating how to prevent this problem from recurring in the future.
Please accept our apologies for this unplanned outage.
-Computing and Communications Services
