Information Technology Services

Wirelss Network Outage – Democracy Laner

Outage category: Wireless Network

Location: Democracy Lane

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert: Mon, July 29, 2019 3:04 pm

Initial Symptoms

Users were unable to connect to the wireless network.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Following the scheduled code upgrade on the Democracy Lane router, the local DHCP configuration for the wireless network failed preventing wireless access points from renewing their DHCP leases.

Resolution

DHCP was moved from using a local DHCP pool on the router to using a pool on the DHCP server.

Prevention

We determined that 3 other remote sites are using local DHCP pools for the wireless network. We are in the process of assigning new IP spaces on the DHCP servers and moving over the remaining 3 networks.