IT Support Guide
You take escalations from Coordinators when the basic steps didn't work. Your job is to exhaust every remote fix before a technician is ever sent.
Taking an escalation
A Coordinator escalates once a remote reset and an on-site power-cycle have both failed. Before you dig in, confirm you have the handoff context:
- Project, site/group, and the specific device
- Downtime duration
- What was already tried, and what the beneficiary reported
If any of that is missing, get it first — it changes where you start.
Remote diagnosis workflow
Work from the data the platform already collects:
- Open the device detail page — check current uptime, last restart time, IP/MAC, and software version.
- Review the uptime and traffic trends — a device that flaps on a schedule behaves differently from one that hard-dropped.
- Check the group / site detail to see whether it's one device or the whole site, and look at the device alert logs (reconnect/disconnect events).
- Glance at the API error logs on the NOC dashboard — if the vendor API itself is erroring, the "outage" may be a data-collection gap, not a real one.
Provider-cloud reset
Use the provider cloud/controller (Ruijie / Omada / Huawei) to confirm the device's live status and logs. If it is reachable or flapping, attempt a remote reset/reboot from the controller. Re-check uptime afterward to confirm it actually came back and stayed up.
The decision point: remote fix vs. dispatch
This is the call only you make. A site visit happens only when:
- The remote reset failed, and
- An on-site router restart also failed, or
- The contact reports physical / hardware damage.
Where that sits in the ladder:
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.
Requesting a dispatch
When you conclude a technician is needed, package everything the installer needs so the trip isn't wasted:
- Exact site, address/location, and on-site contact
- The specific device and the fault you suspect (power, cabling, hardware)
- Everything already tried remotely, so it isn't repeated
- What "fixed" looks like — the device back online and stable