Information Technology Services

WiFi issues in some buildings

Outage category: Wireless Network

Location: East, West, Finley and Krug

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

East building classrooms 121 and 134 students and professor could not connect to the wifi using the following SSIDs:  eduroam and mason-secure.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The Aruba controller was not allowing everyone to connect to Eduroam and mason-secure.

Resolution

Network Engineers tried to take actions to correct the issues. Network Engineers contacted vendor for support, controller was rebooted and services came back online.

Prevention

We have commands now for the Aruba controller to use that we received from the Aruba Engineers, to use in the future. Also we have a case open with the vendor to see if there any bugs or why it happened.