Network Outage – Data Center Switch

Outage category: 
Applications
Location: 
Police VCIN
Status: 
Closed
Resolved alert: 
06/07/2022 4:25 pm

The Police VCIN was down for a short period of time.

Initial symptoms: 

The Data Center Switch went down on the Network monitoring tools. 

Duration: 
06/07/2022 4:15 pm - 06/07/2022 4:25 pm
Impact to Mason: 

Only the Police VCIN network was affected.

Affected Services: 
Application Software
Other Affected Services: 
Police VCIN
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Cause: 

A Supervisor module on the Data Center switch failed.

Resolution: 

Network Engineers replaced the Supervisor and restored backup configurations.

Prevention: 

Have adequate inventory to minimize downtime while replacing equipment.

STATISTICS
Service Team: 
NSOPS