Procedures – Proactive Network Monitoring Service (PNMS)

PNMS provides our clients with piece of mind knowing that CEG will monitor the health of their network 24/7.

When a network does fail, CEG is to take necessary action to ensure the highest network up-time possible.

We ultimately need to ensure every location is being monitored and when a notification is received, take the following action based on the notification condition identified in Table #1.

Condition

Notification Result

Work Instructions

1
Single, Down/UP; notification spacing within 15 minutes
1.Monitor, do not open ticket.
2
Single, Down/Up; notification spacing 15 minutes to 1 hour
1. Send email to support indicating that you have taken responsibility.
2. Open Ticket.
3. Conduct Secondary Ping.
4. *If confirmed Down, email client, communicate verbally, and provide details of proactive efforts to resolve outage.
5. Resolve outage.
* If Up, monitor for 24 hours.
3
Multiple, successive Down/UP notifications over a 4 hour rolling period
1. Send email to support indicating that you have taken responsibility.
2. Open Ticket.
3. Conduct Secondary Ping.
4. *If confirmed Down, email client, communicate verbally, and provide details of proactive efforts to resolve outage.
5. Resolve outage.

* If Up, contact ISP and verify circuit health.

4
Down notification with no reported Up notification
1. Send email to support indicating that you have taken responsibility.
2. Open Ticket.
3. Conduct Secondary Ping.
4. *If confirmed Down, email client, communicate verbally, and provide details of proactive efforts to resolve outage.
5. Resolve outage

* If Up, contact ISP and verify circuit health.