Information Technology Services

VPN Outage

Outage category: VPN

Location: All users trying to connect to VPN

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users could not authenticate using Duo Factor.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

ASA and F5: There was a connection issue between the ASA and the F5 (VIP ISE auth over radius).

Resolution

Engineers (Marca, Casey, and Richard Jackson) restarted the session and recreated the configuration on the ASA. This corrected the issue and all users were able to login to VPN again using DUO.

Prevention

We ultimately restarted this session, on the firewall, and removed the configuration on the ASA and recreated it. Doing so fixed the issues and created a new session which now appears to be working. Moving forward, it would be a good idea to reboot the ASA as part of our planned reboot process after the spring semester is done. Doing so might help similar issues.