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Reduction in off-campus network speeds due to cable cut

Monday 9/23 at around noon a contractor working just outside of UMBC cut through a set of fiber optic networking cables that provide network service to UMBC's main campus, and to our IMET facility...

Posted: September 24, 2019, 3:32 PM

Interruption to Campus Services around 3:20pm today

This afternoon, at around 3:20pm, we suffered a power outage to one of the racks in the computer room in Engineering. This rack holds key equipment that provides data storage for a good number of...

Posted: June 5, 2019, 4:58 PM

UMBC FAQ Knowledge Base Limited to Campus Use Only

Due to a recently published set of security vulnerabilities, UMBC’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) website at umbc.edu/faq  is no longer accessible outside of UMBC. DoIT is going to keep this...

Posted: April 15, 2019, 5:22 PM

Emergency Phone Mail and Call Processing Outage Later today

Beginning over the weekend and continuing into today a number of users and phone numbers may have experienced intermittent phonemail service including both voicemail and call processing boxes. We...

Posted: February 26, 2019, 2:06 PM

Software Bug in ResNet Wireless System

In response to residential student feedback, we recently partnered with the Office of Residential Life and updated all residential buildings with wireless hardware upgrades that provide the...

Posted: September 22, 2017, 9:48 AM

Residential Network Outage Monday Evening

Monday evening around 7:15 pm there was a power outage on part of the campus which caused some of the core switches in the Residential Network to crash and their configuration became corrupted. ...

Posted: March 14, 2017, 10:01 AM

Information about myUMBC outage on Monday February 20th

This morning around 9:10am we experienced a failure of several disk arrays on our central storage system. The arrays that failed affected several critical systems, including myUMBC and parts of...

Posted: February 20, 2017, 11:53 AM