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Platinum Service

Platinum Support, our high-end service offering, enhances your in-office resources with technical experts who are available to support your SMT IT Solutions deployment. Platinum Support offers the optimal level of service for organizations that want to work directly with SMT IT Solutions to address their support needs, with 24/7, year round availability featuring best-in-class response times and advanced assistance

Features

Platinum Support provides access to:
Feature releases and software updates: Stay current with the latest features and software updates.
• Security Assurance: In the event you detect suspicious activity in your network, Security Assurance gives you access to our security experts with unique threat intelligence tools and practices for your Networks footprint. Our team will help orient initial investigations, facilitate the collection of logs and indicators of compromise (IOCs), while expediting hand-off to your preferred incident response (IR) vendor.
•Direct access to a dedicated team of senior engineers: Interact with a senior engineer trained to quickly understand and resolve your unique challenges.
• Platinum Support availability: Enjoy 24/7 support for issues of all severities, with Platinum senior engineers available around the clock to assist.
• Platinum Support response time: Get 15-minute response times for critical issues. Platinum Support delivers an enhanced support service-level agreement as specified in table. “Response time” is the time between case creation and when the senior engineer begins investigating the case.You can open cases online or by phone.
• Online Customer Support Portal: A feature-rich platform provides access to product documentation, problem resolution databases, peer-to-peer interaction, and support case management.
• Case management: Submit, update, check status, and manage support cases for all your supported SMT IT Solutions Services via the online Customer Support Portal or Phone or Viber.
• Documentation and FAQs: Access product manuals, technical guides, software release notes, and frequently asked questions (FAQs) to streamline deployments and incident resolution.
• Security Assurance: When you detect suspicious activity in your network, Security Assurance gives you access to our security experts who will help orient initial investigations, facilitate collection of logs and IOCs, and expedite handoff to your preferred incident response vendor.
• Planned event assistance: If scheduled at least seven days in advance, our Platinum senior engineers can assist with proactive maintenance, such as software upgrades or feature activation. Platinum engineers can also be on call to assist during business events.
Note: Event support normally doesn’t exceed four hours.
Pre-scheduled events are not designed for troubleshooting activities. Product installations are excluded.
• On-site assistance for critical issues: For Severity 1 issues outside the capabilities of remote troubleshooting, a field engineer may be dispatched to your location at the discretion of the Palo Alto Networks Platinum Support management team.
• Failure analysis: In the event of hardware failure, upon request, SMT IT Solutions will analyze the replaced unit and send you the results of the investigation

Support Services
Technical Support Platinum Support
Telephone & Viber Support 24/7
Call Response Time
Severity 1: Critical
Product is down, and customer production environment is critically affected. No workaround available yet.
< 15 minutes
Severity 2: High
Product is impaired, and customer production is up but impacted. No workaround available yet.
< 30 minutes
Severity 3: Medium
A product function has failed; customer production is not affected. Support is aware of the issue, and a workaround is available.
< 2 hours
Severity 4: Low
Non-critical issue. Does not impact customer business. Feature, information, documentation, how-to and enhancement requests from customer.
< 4 hours
Support Specialist Type Senior Engineer