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<title>Resolved: Network Issue delays LDAP upgrade, causes other issues</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1304</link>
<description><![CDATA[At this point, all services known to be affected by this morning's network issue have been restored to service. <br /> <br />Note that some services related to the LDAP upgrade may still be unavailable.  See <http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1279> for progress. <br /> <br />ITS will report on the root cause when it has been confirmed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:50:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title>CIFS Gateway Outage</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1292</link>
<description><![CDATA[Summary: <br />Complications during a planned hardware upgrade of a CIFS Gateway led  <br />to an outage outside the established maintenance windows, and degraded <br />some web services.   <br /> <br />Details: <br />At 7:00AM, Wednesday November 04, one of the six CIFS gateway servers <br />became stuck in a bad state while attempting a graceful shutdown. <br />Said state caused a steady increase in load on those PASS nodes <br />attempting to access the filesystems being touched by the bad CIFS <br />gateway.  As a result, each of the CIFS gateways gracefully removed <br />themselves from the loadbalancer after crossing the maximum load <br />threshold, resulting in the overall service outage. <br /> <br />In addition, www.personal.psu.edu and php.scripts.psu.edu are known <br />to have been impacted, experiencing service degradation due to the  <br />state of those filesystems being touched by the PASS node in a bad state. <br /> <br />All services were restored to full functionality at approximately <br />7:50AM.  Debug data has been gathered and we are working with the vendor  <br />to permanently resolve the root cause of this issue.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:11:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Resolved: PASS Cluster Pause</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1283</link>
<description><![CDATA[By 9:30 p.m. the problem has been cleared, and all services should have been restored.  It appears that www.personal.psu.edu and at least some of the PASS CIFS gateways were affected. <br /> <br />ITS staff have taken diagnostic information from the failing servers and relayed it to the vendor for analysis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:48:15 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Resolved: AIS applications unavailable due to communication problems</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1281</link>
<description><![CDATA[All communications problems have been resolved.  <br />All AIS systems are now available. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:02:10 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Resolved: WebAccess service degraded</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1225</link>
<description><![CDATA[The fourth (and last) server was upgraded by 05:33.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:53:12 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Resolved: www.personal.psu.edu unresponsive</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1244</link>
<description><![CDATA[Service has been restored.  The failing hardware component has been bypassed and will be replaced shortly. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:07:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title>WebAccess service degraded</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1224</link>
<description><![CDATA[The WebAccess service experienced a high load which caused delays in authenticating through it. Personnel are investigating the cause and ways to mitigate future occurrences.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:05:26 EST</pubDate>
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<title>WebAccess service degraded</title>

<link>http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1223</link>
<description><![CDATA[The WebAccess service experienced a high load which caused delays in authenticating through it. Personnel are investigating the cause and ways to mitigate future occurrences.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:08:01 EST</pubDate>
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