Occurrence | Stoplight | Email Audience |
Unexpected Outages | Stoplight should be changed to yellow using “Service Alert” as soon as reports begin of a problem by either the Help Desk, Communication Manager or someone from the area in ITS related to the outage.
Stoplight should be updated to red or green when owner of service or mgr/director of area gives instructions to do so. | Email should be sent to the Tech List for informational purposes immediately when the stoplight is changed to yellow.
Email should be sent to faculty/staff students if the issue is determined to be longer than 15 minutes and impacts core services. |
Maintenance with expected outages that have previously been announced.
(These messages are now only announced if there is an outage of more than 15 minutes of a core service) | Stoplight should be changed to blue using “Service Alert” when maintenance begins.
Stoplight should be changed to green using “Service Alert” when maintenance is complete. | Email should be sent to the Tech List at the beginning and end of maintenance for informational purposes.
Send to faculty/staff/students if the issue is determined to be longer than 15 minutes and impacts core services, Send email when maintenance begins and send another “all clear” message when maintenance is over. |
“Emergency” Maintenance | Stoplight should be changed to blue using “Service Alert” when maintenance begins.
Stoplight should be changed to green using “Service Alert” when maintenance is complete. | Email should be sent to the Tech List at the beginning and end of maintenance for informational purposes.
Email should be sent to faculty/staff/students if an outage is anticipated. |
Maintenance without outages | Stoplight should be changed to blue using “Service Alert” when maintenance begins.
Stoplight should be changed to green using “Service Alert” when maintenance is complete. | Email should be sent to the Tech List at the beginning and end of maintenance for informational purposes.
Do not send email to faculty/staff/students. |
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