Glossary
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Activity
A timed task that is related to an incident
Admin Contact
A person who is the administrative point of contact for a contract
Contact
A person who can receive support, according to his/her entitlement (see Contract) A person who submits or reports an incident and acts as the communications point when dealing with the engineer.
Contract
A contract defines entitlement to support for site and contacts. Also sometimes referred to as 'Maintenance'
Customer
The contact or site we are providing support to.
Dashboard
The main screen of SiT that can contain dashlets.
Dashlet
A dashboard component, a 'widget'.
Data protection
Data protection is to remove the chosen field that has been set for data protection from the detailed listing.
De-Escalate
To decrease the importance of an incident.
End of life
When a skill has reached the end of it's Lifetime it is marked End-of-life, which means it is no longer fully supported.
Engineer
The Support Technician / user who is to provide support.
Escalate
To increase the importance of an incident with the aim of getting it resolved faster.
Escalation Path
A configured method of Escalating an incident.
Feedback
A rating and response from the customer about how the incident was handled
Incident
Incident is the name we use for what may also be referred to as a 'support call'. 'service request' or 'helpdesk ticket'.
Knowledge Base
A database of articles categorised by Skill
Maintenance
Another word for contract
Priority
Urgency or importance. Usually determined by looking at the impact the issue has on the customer. e.g. Low priority would be little impact, critical priority would be maximum impact
Product
A group of skills. E.g. Linux Support
Reseller
A label to indicate which organisation sold or provided the Contract
Review
A special type of SLA target
Sales person
A user who is linked to a site and can filter the list of sites to view only sites linked to him/herself.
Service Level / SLA
A service level or service level agreement (SLA) is a record that defines target times for various incident stages
Site
An organisation that can receive support, a collection of contacts
Skill
An item that is supported. E.g. Debian Linux.
Substitute
A User that takes the place of a user when he/she is unavailable. A replacement.
Supported Contact
A contact who is linked to a contract and is therefore entitled to support
Task
A personal to-do list item
Trigger
An event. E.g. Someone creates an incident
Trigger Action
Something that happens in response to a trigger (if the trigger rules allow it). E.g. An email is sent to the customer
Trigger Rule
A criteria which defines whether a trigger action should happen in response to a trigger.
User
An engineer or technican, an account within SiT! for a person who provides support. In contrast to the 'contact', who submits or reports incidents and has only access to the simple interface "SiT! Portal", the 'users' use SiT! with full functionality of the SiT! GUI
Vendor
Products can be grouped by vendor. It's intended to mean 'Supplier' or 'Provider' of the product, but it can be used as a more general category if preferred.
