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:
- Open the NOC Dashboard (sidebar → Network Operation Center → your project → NOC Dashboard).
- 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.
- 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:
- Check the provider cloud/controller for the device status and logs. If it's reachable or flapping, a remote reset often clears it.
- 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:
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.
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.
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.