Information Technology Services

NETWORK OUTAGE – SMITHSONIAN – MASON SCHOOL OF CONSERVATION

Outage category: Wired Network

Location: Smithsonian- Mason School of Conservation

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Monitoring indicated that the network was unavailable

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The ISP’s router was rebooted and  in doing so lost some previous configurations.

Resolution
The NET team worked with Apogee’s engineer to increase MTU size to bring back the link and reestablish connection.
Prevention
Have adequate personnel available to work on the issue and establish clear POC’s when an outage happens.