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INCIDENT_Authentication (admin console, captive portal) unavailable_25/08/2023

Alexandre de THOMASSON
  • Updated

Incident Summary

Cloudi-fi identified (August 25th 17:30 CET) an incident - captive portal and authentication on Admin platform (for Administrators) were not available.

 

Status

Resolved

 

Incident time window

Start: August 25th 2023, at 17:30 CET

  • Problem definition
  • Operation to identify the root cause
  • Workaround and development of the patch

End: August 29th 2023, at 12:00 CET

 

Impact

Access to admin console and captive portal

 

Root cause

The issue was due to an overload on our encryption service used for communication between our servers (to secure traffic). This overload was introduced by a TCP connections increase. After analysis, this increase was due to a recent change (August-22nd) in our servers in charge to store guest sessions.

  • The objective of this change was to improve the redundancy of our servers in charge to store guest sessions.
  • The change was tested in our QA environment and no issue/impact were identified.

To quickly re-enable the service, we rollbacked this recent change. As a next step, we will

  • Review the capacity of our encryption service
  • Replay the change in QA and confirm that no new issue happens (before any new implementation)

 

Actions plan

Action 1 - August 25th 2023, at 18:30 CET

Restart of our NGINX and PHP servers -> captive portal and Admin console available again

Action 2 - August 26th 2023, at 10:56 CET

Issue appeared again - restart of our PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) -> captive portal and Admin console available again

Action 3 - August 26th 2023, at 17:33 CET

Remove the DB persistency configuration on our servers - random issues still there the day after

Action 4 - August 27th 2023, at 15:54 CET

Disable the Redis cluster configuration -> Service dow again - August 28th 2023, at 08:04 CET

Action 5 - August 28th 2023, at 08:54 CET

Restart of our PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) -> captive portal and Admin console available again

Action 6 - August 28th 2023, at 14:49 CET

Change the caching method -> Service dow again - August 28th 2023, at 17:06 CET

Action 7 - August 28th 2023, at 15:00 CET

Rollback of our recent change (implemented August-22nd) on our servers in charge to store guest sessions.

Action 8 - August 29th 2023, at 12:00 CET

Change the workflow to our servers (in charge of guest sessions storage) to prevent from non shared guest sessions between our nodes.