Information Technology Services

Network Outage – Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation

Outage category: Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation buildings

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Customers were having issues with connectivity.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Client VLAN caused a high CPU utilization.

Resolution

VLAN was shut down on the Mason side of the connection. Smithsonian was contacted to check their side of link and see what was causing the issue with the VLAN.

Prevention

Network Engineering is working with Smithsonian to determine the cause and possible methods of prevention.