Dynamic Forms unreachable

Outage category: 
Applications
Location: 
All campuses
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
08/25/2021 9:15 am

Users were unable to log into Dynamic Forms.

Initial symptoms: 

ITS received reports indicating Dynamic Forms platform was unreachable this morning between 8:30 am and 9:15 am.

Duration: 
08/25/2021 8:30 am - 08/25/2021 9:15 am
Impact to Mason: 

Many offices use Dynamic Forms. All those offices were impacted.

Affected Services: 
Application Software
Other Affected Services: 
Dynamic Forms
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

From the vendor:

Early this morning our network engineer was applying patches to our servers and mistakenly modified the system time on one of our hosts – he moved it ahead 15 minutes. On time sensitive requests such as Single Sign On, the “request” (time from your server) and the “receive” (time on our server) are too many minutes apart causing an error.

Resolution: 

From vendor:

We have adjusted times appropriately and all requests should be executed properly now. We apologize for the inconvenience and confusion this caused.

Prevention: 

Vendor will look into adjusting procedures.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
EASD and CCSE