Coordinator Guide

Your daily monitoring routine, from morning check to escalation. You are the first line — most outages are resolved before they ever reach IT Support.

Start of shift: the morning check

At the start of each day, for every project you cover:

  1. Open the NOC Dashboard (sidebar → Network Operation Center → your project → NOC Dashboard).
  2. Read the Daily Report morning briefing — a once-per-day snapshot with a health verdict and the sites that recovered or newly went down overnight.
  3. Note the offline count and online % in the KPI strip so you know where the day stands.

Find what's down (and what's been down longest)

Three views tell you what needs attention, in order:

  • KPI strip — the headline offline count for the project.
  • Outage Triage — the live list of currently-down sites, already grouped into area-wide clusters vs. isolated faults, with a suggested next action.
  • Sites Map — down sites are color-coded, so you can see at a glance whether an outage is geographically clustered.

Prioritize sites that have been down the longest — these are the ones most likely to need a real fix rather than a brief flap.

Diagnose, then call the beneficiary

For each down site, work the cheapest action first:

  1. Check the provider cloud/controller for the device status and logs. If it's reachable or flapping, a remote reset often clears it.
  2. If that doesn't bring it back, call the site contact / beneficiary. Ask what's happening on the ground — power brownout, weather, an unplugged router — and have them power-cycle the router.

Most outages are resolved at these two steps. A truck roll is expensive — never jump straight to it.

When to escalate to IT Support

Escalate when the remote reset didn't work and the on-site power-cycle also failed — but before you assume a physical fault. When you escalate, hand off the full picture:

  • Project, site/group name, and device
  • How long it's been down
  • What you already tried (remote reset? contact reached? power-cycled?)
  • Anything the beneficiary reported (power, weather, damage)

The full ladder you're working within:

1

Check the provider cloud / remote reset

Coordinator → IT Support

Look at the provider cloud/controller for the device's status and logs. If it is reachable or flapping, attempt a remote reset/reboot. Most outages clear here.

2

Call the site contact

Coordinator

If the remote reset does not bring it back, call the beneficiary/site contact to ask what is happening on the ground (power brownout, weather, unplugged router) and have them power-cycle the router.

3

Recommend a site visit

Dispatch Installer

ONLY if the remote reset failed AND an on-site restart also did not work, or the contact reports physical/hardware damage. Only then send a technician.

Area-wide outages behave differently

When three or more sites within about 10 km go down together, the Outage Triage flags it as an area-wide cluster. These almost always come from a shared cause — a power utility outage or a backhaul provider issue — not the sites themselves.

For clusters, hold dispatch and coordinate with the power/backhaul provider. Sending an installer to one site won't fix a regional outage.

End-of-day handoff checklist

  • Every down site has a recorded action (reset / called / escalated).
  • Long-running outages have a ticket or a clear next step.
  • Area-wide clusters are noted with the suspected shared cause.
  • Anything handed to IT Support has the full context above.