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Blackboard Login Unavailable

Outage category: myMason, Blackboard

Location: All Campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users received an error message when trying to log into Blackboard

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The issue was found to be a bug in Learn whereby Learn cannot find the X509 certificate of the Identity Provider.

Resolution

This bug has been resolved in release 3900.2 that will be applied to GMU’s production environment on 12/3/20. The fix is that Learn will now store the Identity Provider X509 certificate in the keystore as a backup of the certificate that can be used in the event it cannot be found in the primary location.

Prevention

This is a Learn bug that was fixed.