Information Technology Services

Wi-Fi and VPN authentication issues

Outage category: VPN, Wireless Network

Location: Wireless on all Mason locations and VPN users

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Support was receiving calls from users unable to connect to Wi-Fi or able to Login to the VPN

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The ClearPass authentication server cluster was out of SYNC due to the /var partition reaching 100%-disc usage. This issue appears to have been introduced in the latest patch upgrade (addressing CVE).

Resolution

The Vendor applied temporary work arounds to address the issue, until a patch fix is published.

Prevention

Vendor and Mason are monitoring disk issue via Splunk alert.