Information Technology Services

NETWORK OUTAGE – MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AT THE FAIRFAX CAMPUS

Outage category: Telephone, Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Engineering Building, Arts & Design Building, Innovation Hall, and Research Hall

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Network & Security Operations reported systems down in their monitoring tools.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

A network core router device exhibited a fault, resulting in a required reboot.

Resolution

The network device was rebooted by engineers.

Prevention

Maintain sufficient onsite engineers for rapid incident response.