Lynda.com Access

Outage category: 
Applications
Location: 
All Campuses
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
09/10/2018 8:32 am

Some users are receiving an error message when accessing Lynda.com. Lynda.com is aware of the problem and is working to resolve as soon as possible. The error is intermittent and some users have reported clearing browser cache or trying a different browser will allow them to access the site.

Initial symptoms: 

Some users are receiving an error message when accessing Lynda.com. Lynda.com is aware of the problem and is working to resolve as soon as possible. The error is intermittent and some users have reported clearing browser cache or trying a different browser will allow them to access the site.

Duration: 
09/10/2018 11:05 am - 09/10/2018 8:32 am
Impact to Mason: 

Lynda.com was unreachable for some customers.

Affected Services: 
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

Lynda.com was unreachable for some customers starting on Friday, September 7th due to a planned upgrade of our Shibboleth Service Provider (“SP”). This upgrade resulted in conflicts between the published Lynda.com metadata and our SP configuration.

Resolution: 

The issue was fully solved on a per customer basis between Tuesday, September 11 and Wednesday, September 12.

Prevention: 

We were enforcing the default key for all shib.lynda.com customers and not taking into account the different metadata and certificate that AAF (Australian Access Federation) was assigned.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
Online Learning Resources