Information Technology Services

NETWORK OUTAGE – SMITHSONIAN MASON SCHOOL OF CONSERVATION

Outage category: Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Network Operations monitoring tool reported that hardware at location was unreachable.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The first part of the outage lasted until 2pm was caused by our ISP.
The second part only impacted one of Mason switches, caused by a corrupted config file as a result of power outage.

Resolution

Both the vendor and Network & Security Operations had staff on site to address the issues.

Prevention

For second part of outage: have the latest backup file on-hand and engineers on-site for deployment