Information Technology Services

ResNet (Wi-Fi) Outage

Outage category: Wireless Network

Location: Fairfax Campus Residence Halls

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert: Mon, October 25, 2021 12:00 am

Initial Symptoms

50+ students on the DP03 were not able to consistently connect to ResNet

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

DP03 was failing causing lose in service to users.   The cluster was in a cascade failure stated. Cause was the HA was set too low.  As DPs add the new VLANS, their control plane became unresponsive too long and the cluster would fail over to the next DP in line restarting the process.

Resolution

DP03 was removed from the cluster and upgrade during reboot.  Bug in software was fixed and The DP03 was re-added to cluster with an additional maintenance on 10/25 to readjust load balance among VLANS.

Prevention

Entire cluster HA times have been has increased to avoid cascade fail-overs.