Emergency channel
A separate number with no voice menu or answering machine, working at any hour.
What is handled round the clock is incidents specifically. Ordinary questions are dealt with during working hours, which is right both financially and in common sense.
A separate number with no voice menu or answering machine, working at any hour.
The shift is staffed to a rota, with cover and handovers, not a lone engineer with a phone by the pillow.
Remote connection, restarting services, switching to a backup link.
A specialist engineer and a manager are brought in by a written procedure.
When nothing can be done remotely, an engineer travels to the site.
After every incident we find the cause and remove it, not just the consequences.
Onboarding takes a week: handing the estate over to the duty team and agreeing the order of actions.
We agree in advance what demands immediate intervention and what can wait until morning.
Whom to wake, who has the right to stop a service, whom to report progress to.
Diagrams, access, documentation and ready recovery scenarios go to the duty shift.
Round-the-clock cover, a review of every case, a report at the end of the month.
At night it turns out that only one person has access to the system in question, and they are not picking up. Passwords for the accounting database, the provider panel and the equipment must sit in protected storage available to the duty engineer. Otherwise the shift watches the outage with no way to intervene.
From the required response speed, the number of critical systems and whether night visits are needed. Cover with remote connection only costs noticeably less than cover that includes coming out at any hour.
Whatever the contract says: the accounting system stopping, a server failing, loss of connectivity at a site. A slow printer is not an incident, however firmly an employee insists otherwise.
By having shifts and cover. One person cannot be on duty round the clock: they sleep, fall ill, go away. A rota and a handover turn duty cover into a service rather than heroics.
Write your working hours and what is critical outside office time. We will define the incident list and price it.
Request received
It is already with a manager. You will get an answer within the working day, and urgent requests go to the duty engineer immediately.
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