Network Connection Issues

Outage category: 
Wired Network, Wireless Network, VPN
Location: 
All Campuses
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
07/28/2021 4:20 pm

All internet services had intermittent connection issues.

Initial symptoms: 

Customers reported intermittent issues reaching internet services.

Duration: 
07/28/2021 3:45 pm - 07/28/2021 4:20 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Intermittent connectivity to services inside and outside of Mason.

Affected Services: 
Network Access
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

The cause of the service outage was due to a autonomous process applying configuration.

Resolution: 

Spanning tree convergence time, the routers will have to build up their state, once that was completed all services came back online.

Prevention: 

NSENG is working on a configuration enforcement system. Engineers will continue monitoring issue, but it has been resolved.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NSENG