Hi Greg,
Regarding Departmental IT Support, Central IT Support and triage, it might be a good idea to define (perhaps in a different SLA) what is expected of each? This seems like a good way to collaborate and to help establish bridges between IT and departments. For example, if a user called the help desk with a support request, they could ask if they had tried their local support options. If the answer is ‘yes’ then the technician who gets the ticket can assume that certain preliminaries have already been attempted, or at the very least, that the Departmental IT support can provide technical background about the problem.
[IN PROGRESS] One idea that was proposed in a different SLA discussion was to have an OLA for the local IT departmental units. As the introduction of this OLA is going to change the dynamic of how UNM IT has been working with departments. I am going to bring this back for feedback.
Regarding this:
I propose to change this to: “Bring to the Customers’ attention any situation in which extra time is required of UNM IT staff to support this service. With Customers’ approval and request, UNM IT staff will engage in the agreed upon support activities. In these situations, UNM IT reserves the right to bill at the professional service rate outlined under Pricing and Billing for these activities.” Thoughts?
This sounds reasonable, as long as you’re not painting yourself into a corner. Two scenarios come to mind:
An active emergency requires that a site be shut down immediately; IT should have the option of doing that if the the emergency warrants it.
Cases where departmental contacts are non-responsive and IT must take action to prevent or stop problems.
In these cases like these, IT should be able to simply shut a site down quickly (and probably non-billable-ly), and sort things out later with the Customer.
As an update, the current template language that our Agreements Committed agreed to: “Upon notification, UNM IT reserves the right to bill, at our standard hourly rate or expedited service rate, for any avoidable situations in which extra time is being required of UNM IT staff.”
http://mysos.unm.edu/ seems like a good idea. As long as it’s not on dept2.unm.edu and dept2.unm.edu is down.
[IN PROGRESS] It’s going to be on a different server than the downed websites/apps. We use the F5 to to check and redirect.