Banner Admin and UAOnline Employee Self-Service Outage

Update timeline

1. investigating May 28, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC

   We have received reports that forms in Banner admin are not loading, and UAOnline's Employee login is experiencing authentication issues. The OIT EAS team is currently reaching out to the vendor, and we will be making updates at 30-minute intervals. Thank you for your patience during the resolution of this issue!

2. investigating May 28, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC

   OIT EAS has contacted the vendor for Banner and are monitoring their communication channels for updates. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

3. investigating May 28, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC

   OIT EAS reports the vendor's technicians are engaged and working on both Banner/UAOnline issues experienced. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

4. investigating May 28, 2026, 05:34 PM UTC

   The issue is continuing to be worked, and there is no new information available at this time. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

5. investigating May 28, 2026, 06:01 PM UTC

   The issue is continuing to be worked, and there is no new information available at this time. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

6. investigating May 28, 2026, 06:32 PM UTC

   The issue is continuing to be worked, and there is no new information available at this time. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

7. investigating May 28, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC

   The issue is continuing to be worked, and there is no new information available at this time. We will continue to make updates as new information becomes available and at 30-minute intervals. Thank you again for your time and patience while we work towards a resolution!

8. monitoring May 28, 2026, 07:16 PM UTC

   Ellucian, the vendor for Banner, has identified the issue and implemented a fix, which is being monitored for effectiveness and stability. Thank you again for your patience during the resolution of this issue! You can expect further updates at the end of the business day (5:00PM) or as new information becomes available.

9. resolved May 29, 2026, 01:49 AM UTC

   The fix applied to Banner Admin and the UAOnline Employee Dashboard has remained stable, and we are considering the outage resolved at this time. Please report any continued issues with this service to your campus's IT helpdesk, and thank you again for your patience during the resolution of this issue!

10. postmortem Jul 01, 2026, 06:03 PM UTC

    UAOnline and Banner Admin Login Issue Problem Impact Analysis Event Occurrence: May 28, 2026 4am to 11:15am, May 29, 2026 4am to 9am # Background UAOnline is the self service portal for Ellucian Banner used as the university’s Enterprise Resource Planning \(ERP\) system. These systems are hosted in Ellucian cloud and require period maintenance including security certificate updates for trust between UA and Ellucian systems. The Banner software periodically has system defects that are addressed by daily application restarts. # Break Down of the Problem ‌ On May 28th at 6:56am, a notice was sent to the Banner team through slack that a person was receiving an error when attempting to access the Employee Dashboard. The vendor Ellucian was notified of the event and identified the issue and implemented a work around. On May 29th at 8:11am, the same issue was reported through the Banner team slack channel for Banner Admin. The same ticket opened the prior day was used to report the issue and they used the same work around from the day before to restore service prior to 9:00am. # Target State / Goal Banner self service \(Employee Dashboard\) and Banner Admin services should be available to customers 24/7 except during pre-defined maintenance windows. # Root Cause Analysis ‌ Ellucian in preparation for an upcoming security certificate renewal staged changes in the production environment for the following weekend’s activity. There were mitigations in place due to Banner product defects that would restart Banner service instances daily at 4am. The restart process triggered the inclusion of these new certificates, causing a mismatch of certificates that prevented Single Sign On services from connecting for both Banner admin and the employee self service module. # Develop Countermeasures ‌ * Complete the implementation of the new certificates. * Provide feedback to the vendor to ensure their staff are properly equipped to avoid this in the future. # Implementation of Countermeasures May 30, 7:00 PM: Complete implementation of certificate change over for the whole system. June 2, 11:00AM: Convey feedback to vendor on how they need to change. # Follow Up / Review May 30-31: Validate certificate replacement is working for all systems. June 2: Vendor notified and RCA was provided by vendor, confirming what occurred.