Information Technology Services

Citrix Virtual Lab – Storefront Outage

Outage category: Applications

Location: All users of CVL Storefront

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

User reported they were able to access the CVL last night but was unable to this morning. Initial tests by engineers showed that the system was up and accessible when using the Citrix Workspace App but after communicating with the Support Center it was identified that the problem was with the Citrix Storefront.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

A certificate has expired. While it appeared that the certificate had been renewed, the renewed certificate was never emailed to the application administrator.

Resolution

The renewed certificate was loaded into the IIS component and resolved the problem.

Prevention

Issue was primarily caused by changes to the certificate process that were not well documented, specifically for application administrators. Teams will be looking to see if any guides exist to better enable application administrators to manage certs.