Information Technology Services

Intermittent WiFi Issues

Outage category: Wireless Network

Location: Fenwick Library, Peterson Hall, and Thompson Hall

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Alerts on SiteScope and starting to get calls about no internet or can not reach web sites, or get emails.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

At 1:30am after hours, Engineer was working on a new network for the UPS store, using the Wing Zone VRF. When he cloned the existing VRF to make a new network for the UPS Store, the ANY ANY rule on the Firewall was deleted, causing the outage.

Resolution

The Any Any Firewall Rule was put back into place bringing most services back, but there were a lot of stale sessions that had to be cleared, after clearing the sessions all services came back online.

Prevention

Making sure we follow roll back protocols and Managers are informed of the situation.