Customer Support Services

Schedule

Support LevelDaysIsrael (GMT+2|3)US EasternUK
RegularMon - Thu9 am - 5 pm2 am - 10 am7am - 3 pm
ExtendedSun9 am - 5 pm2 am - 10 am7am - 3 pm
ExtendedMon-Thu5 pm - 9 pm10 am - 2 pm3 pm - 7 pm
ExtendedFri10 am - 4 pm3 am - 9 am8 am - 2 pm
EmergencyAll Other Times
        When clocks adjust for Daylight Savings Time, the above table may not be accurate until all countries are aligned.

Regular support is available to all customers of Agat products.

For regular and extended support email support@agatsoftware.com

Support and Maintenance Plans

Customers with support and maintenance plan subscriptions are entitled to Extended and Emergency support, which is available 24 x 7.

For emergency support and critical issues you will have received a dedicated number.

Free minor updates / hot fixes, bug fixes.

If necessary, direct access to development team during working hours.

Ticket escalation:  Reply via email to a ticket that you would like escalated or reach out directly to the Manager of Technical Services.

Service Level Agreement (SLA)

We aim for the following SLA and response times for all customers who have a paid Support and Maintenance Plan, during our company's business hours:   

PriorityContact MethodResponseResolve
CriticalCall Emergency HotlineImmediate4 hours
HighEmail support@agatsoftware.com1 hour8 hours
MediumEmail support@agatsoftware.com4 hours2 days
LowEmail support@agatsoftware.com1 day

3 days

If the development team is needed to resolve a support issue, then the above SLA may not apply, as development work must be planned and tested before deployment.

Priorities

Following are the guidelines for objective prioritization of support requests:

Critical

Customer's business has significant loss or degradation of services

More than 3 end users are affected

UC product (Teams, Webex, etc) is down due to Sphereshield

High

Outage or performance degradation affects several users at a site

Critical product functionality does not work

Medium

Customer's business is substantially functioning with minor or no impediments of service

Affects a single user

Does not prevent user from performing their job

Non-critical product functionality does not work

Low

Training

Product information and questions

Planning a scheduled deployment or upgrade


Customer Guidelines for Receiving Support

All electronic communications with Customer Support must be via email to support@agtsoftware.comThis will create a ticket in our Zoho ticketing system and will auto-reply with the ticket number in the Subject line. Messages to individual technicians or via other communication methods may not receive a reply in a timely fashion or at all.

Report every independent issue in a separate ticket.  Avoid mixing several unrelated issues in the same ticket .

Subject -The subject of the email should include a short description of the issue or question

In the email message body include :

  1. Description - more detailed description of the issue or question.   Include screenshots or copies of any relevant information.
  2. Priority - objective priority of the issue, ie high, medium, low, etc.    
  3. Scope - number of users or systems are effected by the issue.   If specific users, provide details.
  4. Time - the date and time of the incident or issue.  Specify your time zone.
  5. Users - the full username(s) used to sign in that experienced the issue (the "display name" is insufficient). If more then one user is affected, specify as many users as possible
  6. Reproduce - Steps to replicate the issue, as precise and detailed as possible.   Example: Create a meeting from the meet now button in the Teams calendar tab. Add an external user. Try sharing your desktop.

If you use the Sphereshield proxy include:

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