INTERMITTENT VPN ISSUE

Outage category: 
VPN
Location: 
All Remote Users
Status: 
Open
Resolved alert: 
08/14/2024 3:34 pm
George Mason experienced an intermittent VPN access for remote users. After further troubleshooting with the vendor (HPE,CISCO) , a radius service was restarted on the Clearpass authentication server to clear the issues.
Initial symptoms: 
Intermittent VPN access or no access at all
Duration: 
08/14/2024 8:30 am - 08/14/2024 3:34 pm
Impact to Mason: 
All remote VPN users were impacted.
Affected Services: 
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 
Internal Clearpass radius service error.
Resolution: 
GMU engineers worked with Aruba HPE TAC to restart the radius service on the Clearpass server, which restored normal functionality. 
Prevention: 
Monitor the system logs / load ( #of requests/timeouts) per server. 
STATISTICS
Service Team: 
Enterprise Infrastructure Services Management