System Status

Curent Status - Load Balancers

This service is not reporting an issue.

Planned Maintenance - Load Balancers

No system maintenance is planned over the next 30 days

Load Balancers (Last 90 days)

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System History - Load Balancers

From most recent to oldest, this list shows all outages, degradations and planned maintenance for this service

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2025-01-23 19:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
FortiADC FIrmware Upgrade
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Task Number: CHG0036348

-Upgrade complete.

-Upgrade is underway.

The FortiADC Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.6.1
to address the RADIUS vulnerability described in CVE-2024-3596

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2025-01-02 19:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0036261

-Firmware upgrade complete

-The Campus, Comtech, and Primary DNS Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.4.5 build 0364 

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2025-01-02 19:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC Load Balancers
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The Campus, Comtech, and Primary DNS Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.4.5 build 0364

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2024-06-13 18:00:00, Duration 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Upgrade FortiADC Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0035440

Upgrade Complete.

The Campus, Comtech, and Primary DNS Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.4.5

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2024-05-23 18:00:00, Duration 4 Hours
Replace Campus Load Balancer Hardware
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Task Number: CHG0035241

Hardware replacement complete. 

The CMDF and SMDF campus load balancer will be replaced with a newer model 2000F chassis.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2024-04-18 18:00:00, Duration 2 Hours 30 Minutes
Upgrade Comtech & Campus Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0035081

-Upgrade complete. Certificate upload and Virtual Server Availability has been verified.

-The Campus, Comtech, and Primary DNS Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.4.3

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2024-02-28 18:00:00, Duration 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Upgrade FortiADC Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0034812

Upgrade is Complete.

 

The Campus, Primary DNS, and Comtech Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver. 7.4.1.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-12-19 18:00:00, Duration 4 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0034461

Upgrade complete.

 

The Campus, Comtech, and Primary DNS Load Balancers will be upgraded to ver 7.2.3.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-09-28 13:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
FortiADC 200F HW replacement
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Task Number: CHG0034202

-Hardware has been replaced. All services online.

-Replacing FortiADC 200F HA Pair with  newer models to address memory issues.

No outages are anticipated with this change.

 

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-06-29 18:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade Firmware: balance.ddi.ncsu
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Task Number: CHG0033638

-Upgrade complete.

-Firmware upgrade is in progress.

-The Firmware on the DDI Load Balancer will be upgraded from 6.2.1 to 7.2.1

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-04-27 18:00:00, Duration 1 Hour
Upgrade Comtech & Campus Load Balancers
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Task Number: CHG0033321

--Comtech load balancer upgrade complete.  

--Campus load balancer upgrade complete.

--The Comtech and Campus Load Balancers will be upgraded to firmware version 7.2.1.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-03-02 15:04:55, Duration 55 Minutes
FortiADC - Change admin password
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Task Number: CHG0033133

-Change complete

-The admin password will be change on the Campus, Comtech, and DDI FortiADC Load balancers.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-03-02 11:00:00, Duration 1 Hour 2 Minutes
FortiADC -Enable Duo 2FA
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Task Number: CHG0033134

-Change complete.

-Enabling Duo 2FA on Campus Load Balancer.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2023-02-02 18:33:02, Duration 56 Minutes
Reboot Campus Load Balancer
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Task Number: CHG0033055

 

-Reboot complete. All connected systems and resources online. 

 

-Maintenance reboot to optimize WAF performance.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-12-15 18:00:49, Duration 2 Hours 9 Minutes
Upgrade Comtech and Campus Load Balancer
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Task Number: CHG0032904

 

-Upgrade is complete for both the Comtech and Campus Load Balancers.

-Upgrade Comtech and Campus Load Balancers from ver 6.2.5 to ver 7.1.1

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-11-17 18:07:13, Duration 2 Hours 17 Minutes
Upgrading Comtech and Campus FortiADCs
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Task Number: CHG0032696

 

-Upgrade of Comtech Load Balancers complete. This concludes the planned maintenance. All connected systems are online.

-Upgrade of Campus Load Balancer is complete. 

-Upgrading Firmware to address an issue with VDOM access and certificate install.

Degradation - Load Balancers

Started 2022-11-09 20:05:12, Duration 2 Hours 34 Minutes
Rebooting Campus Load Balancer
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Task Number: CHG0032719

 

-Reboot is complete and services are back online.

Emergency reboot of campus load balancers to address issues with VIPs

causing intermittent delays in hosted sites.

Outage - Load Balancers

Started 2022-10-03 13:30:00, Duration 2 Hours
Websites failing certificate validation
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A work around was put in place at 3:30pm yesterday.  There is still an ongoing permissions issue that needs to be resolved, but all system impact is currently mitigated.

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Beginning about 1:30pm a handful of university websites began failing certificate validation due to an error updating certificates in the Load Balancer.  We are working with Comtech and the vendor on a solution.

bmig.ncsu.edu
privatewell.ncsu.edu
email.web.ncsu.edu
cvm.ncsu.edu
internal.cvm.ncsu.edu
docs.cvm.ncsu.edu
hospital.cvm.ncsu.edu
mbs.cvm.ncsu.edu
news.cvm.ncsu.edu
php.cvm.ncsu.edu
staging.cvm.ncsu.edu
staging.hr.ncsu.edu
pace.ncsu.edu
google-reports.oit.ncsu.edu
wp-updates.oit.ncsu.edu

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-09-27 17:15:00, Duration 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.oit.ncsu.edu
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Task Number: CHG0032539

 

-Upgrade complete

Upgrading from version 6.1.6 to 6.2.4

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-09-17 10:00:00, Duration 39 Minutes
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.ncstate.net
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Task Number: CHG0032511

-Upgrade Complete.

-Upgrading to ver. 6.2.4 as recommended by support.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-05-15 11:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade Firmware: balance.ddi.ncsu
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Task Number: CHG0032052

 

-Firmware upgrade complete.

-Upgrade Firmware: balance.ddi.ncsu

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-05-15 10:00:00, Duration 1 Hour
Reload Campus Load Balancer
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Task Number: CHG0032054

 

-Reload complete.

 

-The Campus Load Balancer will be reloaded to address an issue with applying WAF profiles

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-03-13 10:00:00, Duration 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.ncsu.edu
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Task Number: CHG0031856

 

-Upgrade complete.

Upgrading from version 6.1.5 to 6.1.6

Outage - Load Balancers

Started 2022-03-10 14:19:00, Duration 10 Minutes
cdn.ncsu.edu offline
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The load balancer VIP for cdn.ncsu.edu on-campus was down for about 10 minutes when the service broke during a certificate update. This service provides support content for the homepage. Off-campus users are directed to cdn.ncsu.edu in AWS, so they were not affected.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-02-13 10:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.ncsu.edu
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Task Number: CHG0031718

-Upgrade complete

-Upgrading from version 5.3.5 to 6.1.5

Degradation - Load Balancers

Started 2022-01-12 16:30:24, Duration 2 Hours 28 Minutes
Fortiadc - Login- Page Not responding
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Task Number: INC3852198

Fortinet developers have identified a large amount of historical data causing the WebGUI to become unresponsive. Once this data was removed the WebGUI loaded normally.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2022-01-09 10:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.ncsu.edu
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Task Number: CHG0031589

-The HA pair became inaccessible after the upgrade to 5.4.5. Firmware has been reverted back to version 5.3.5.  All connected systems are back online.

Fortinet support has been contacted to debug issues with the upgrade. Upgrade to be rescheduled for a later date.

 

 

-Upgrading from version 5.3.5 to 5.4.5

Outage - Load Balancers

Started 2021-12-02 09:17:00, Duration 13 Minutes
Many Web Sites Down briefly
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All traffic to/from the "web" vDom in the Load Balancer went down from 9:17-9:30am this morning.  This would have affected most WordPress sites, Go Links, Web Registry, the Campus Directory, and a number of smaller sites.  Service is restored and we're waiting on a root cause.

Planned maintenance - Load Balancers

Started 2021-11-14 09:00:00, Duration 2 Hours
Upgrade FortiADC: balance.ncstate.net
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Task Number: CHG0031439

-All Firmware Upgrades have completed. Current version 6.2.1.

- A system reboot was required for the initial Firmware upgrade. Continuing to upgrade Firmware versions according to upgrade path.

Upgrading Firmware for functionality with Kubernetes.

Outage - Load Balancers

Started 2021-08-19 13:15:08, Duration 3 Hours 13 Minutes
balance.ncsu.edu
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-The HA cluster and previous settings have been restored.

While troubleshooting an issue with the HA cluster on balance.ncsu.edu some configuration settings were lost. Working to restore HA members from backup to retrieve settings.