The electronic system for submitting applications to secondary schools was unavailable for several tens of minutes this afternoon, but it is now working again. The reason was the failure of the basic registers, the director of the organization responsible for the preparation of the Cermat admissions procedure, Miroslav Krejčí, told ČTK around 4:00 p.m. According to him, Cermat switched the DiPSy system to maintenance mode, so people could not work with applications to secondary schools or submit new ones, even in the mode without logging in through verified citizen identity. According to Krejčí, he stopped the functioning of the Cermat system so as not to burden the basic registers.
“If it had been a problem, for example, with the overloading of the basic registers, then we would not have helped them at all if we kept sending them questions there,” said Krejci. Around 16:00, the system started up again.
After opening the high school registration website, people were shown information that operations should be restored within tens of minutes. “System operation is currently suspended due to a problem with the core registers. It should be restored in tens of minutes,” was written on the page.
Digital and Information Agency spokeswoman Anna-Marie Lichtenbergová told ČTK that they are looking into where the problem arose. According to her, it looks like there was a problem with the core registries and the central service point (CMS).
The central point of services enables public administration information systems to communicate with each other.
