Information Technology Services

Unable to Access to Some Mason Services

Outage category: Applications

Location: All Campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

DBA’s and others reporting that the applications are running slow or not working.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

High CPU and traffic going through the Firewall being very slow.

Resolution

The Primary Firewall was shut down, and all traffic was moved to the DR secondary Firewall, witch became the Primary. Once this was done, all intermittent slowness and applications came back online with normal speeds.

Prevention

Engineers have shutdown Primary in Fairfax and rebooted it, also have a case with Palo Alto support to see what could they find was the issue causing the slowness.