About Support

MacStadium offers various First-Line Support Services, which include:

• Monitoring, that automatically opens support tickets
• Remote Hands and Basic Support (primarily for Host-Level issues)
• Shift manager to triage, evaluate severity, and escalate issues

Overview

Priority definitions for Support:

• Priority 1 - Outage incident - Environment down / Inaccessible
• Priority 2 - Major Business Impact - Performance degraded or business-critical capability is not working
• Priority 3 - Minor Business Impact - Non-critical capability is broken or critical capability where sufficient workaround is identified
• Priority 4 - General Usage Question - A functional question

Getting Started

MacStadium Ticketing System

1. Start by logging in to https://portal.macstadium.com
2. Click Support Center in the bottom-left corner.
3. Click Create Ticket in the upper-right corner.

If the request is related to a specific subscription, then select from the dropdown:

1. Select the appropriate ticket type.
2. Type a message in the text box.
3. (Optional) Attach files by clicking the paperclip icon in the bottom-left.

• If the ticket or attachment contains sensitive information such as login credentials, and so on, then click the checkbox marked, sensitive information to ensure the message is never stored or transmitted in plain-text (meaning, via email).

4. Click Create Ticket and the ticket is created, assigned a number, and added to the new ticket queue.

• Customers may review all tickets (open and closed), responses, and attachments via the same portal.
• Customers can close tickets by selecting Closed from the dropdown (beside the ticket number).

Possible Reasons for Creating a Ticket

Creating a ticket through MacStadium's customer portal is the fastest and most secure way of reaching MacStadium engineering staff. Each ticket is reviewed by one of our Customer Support technicians. When necessary, tickets are escalated to more specialized engineering staff. Tickets are the best way to kick-off most requests.

Environment Set Up

• Questions about the IP plan document.
• Questions about firewall set up.

Remote Hands Request

• Troubleshooting a non-responsive host.
• Re-imaging a host whose OS has become corrupted.

Configuration Change Request

• Requesting version update for a host OS or virtualization control layer.
• Requests for infrastructure additions.
• Customers working with an Account Manager, it is ideal to reach out directly and have them quote prices, kick off the request, and so on.
• Customer without an Account Manager or customers with a simple request, can open a ticket for:
  • Firewall upgrades
  • Host additions
  • Storage LUN expansions
  • Additional IP addresses
  • Notification on performance issues

Alert Monitoring

• NMS alerts generated by our operational monitoring system.
• Email alerts generated by internal monitoring sent to "[email protected]" via an email address associated with the account.

Status Page

http://status.macstadium.com/

This website shows current status of each data center and is the ideal place to stay up-to-date on scheduled maintenance or unplanned outages.