Information Technology Services

Essex Building Network Outage

Outage category: Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Essex Building

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Monitors showed that the Essex Building switch was down.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Hardware failure caused the issue.

Resolution

The supervisor card in the building switch was replaced. The new supervisor card  was configured with the saved configuration for the building switch. Network connectivity was restored once card was installed and programmed.

Prevention

Maintain a level of spare cards (supervisor and other) on site for quick replacement.