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Important information when opening a customer support case for the RSA NetWitness Platform

Issue

Please consider providing the following information when opening an RSA NetWitness Platform support case.
This information will help an engineer more effectively gather important information and provide assistance to your case.

Tasks

Question:  What information should I provide when opening a support request for the RSA NetWitness Platform?
Answer:  Consider providing the following information when opening a support request case when contacting RSA Customer Support regarding RSA NetWitness Platform products.  This information will help RSA review your request, assign the most appropriate resources and respond more effectively and quickly. 

 
  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm your name, office and mobile phone and email address.  Confirm whether you have access to access email and the web including RSA Link and Case Management, especially if you are working in a computer room or data center.
  • Why it Helps Support: Make sure we can contact you and provide you the information you need.  This is important if you are not at your desk and we need to provide KB articles, scripts, or other files you may need to resolve your case.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm the Serial Number of your appliance.
  • Why it Helps Support: Your serial number helps us to identify the make, model and configuration of your appliance.  This helps support identify known issues before we contact you.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm the type of appliance and how many of each you need help with today.
  • Why it Helps Support: This helps us know how many appliances and what kind of appliances we are dealing with

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm the type of storage, if any, you have and provide a serial number for the DAC or storage array.
  • Why it Helps Support: This helps support know what kind of storage you have.  If your appliance is connected to a VNX or other storage array, we can engage the right support resources earlier in the process.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Provide a concise but meaningful statement of why you are contacting RSA Customer Support today.
  • Why it Helps Support: Please provide a meaningful description of the problem.  The more information you provide about the issue you are facing, the quicker we can engage with a meaningful response. 
    An example of a more helpful description would be , "I was upgrading a Decoder from version x to version y and the Decoder will no longer capture data."

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm the RSA Product Set, RSA Product/Service Type, Platform, OS Version, and RSA Version.
  • Why it Helps Support: This will help us know where to steer the case for initial contact.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm the environment.  Is this production, test/pre-production, implementation, upgrade or Proof of Concept.
  • Why it Helps Support: This will help determine priority for the call.  Production is normally considered most important.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm whether a Sales Engineer, Professional Services Engineer Incident Response team member, or EMC SAN engineer, Software Development engineer, or other RSA/EMC staff are on-site or already working with you.  If so, please provide their names in the ticket.
  • Why it Helps Support: If RSA or EMC has people on-site it will help to know who they are so we can contact them to get additional information and background and avoid duplication of effort.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm whether your system is down or not and determine severity level.
  • Why it Helps Support: Is the system down?  Down systems get priority.  Let us know how urgent they consider this request.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Confirm whether there is an on-going incident or other investigation in progress.
  • Why it Helps Support: Did something bad happen that we might want to know to prioritize properly?

  • What to Include in Your Case: If possible, run the latest version of the sosreport, nwtech.sh, nwraidutil.pl and sa_diag.sh scripts and upload to the case notes or RSA sftp site as soon as possible.
  • Why it Helps Support: Gather and submit these items as soon as possible.  These two tools are the best information gathering tools we have when evaluating your problem. 
    It will help to confirm the other information gathered above and we can review this before we call the customer and have a plan of action ready, thus saving time on that initial call.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Note your case and refer to it when you contact support.
  • Why it Helps Support: The case number helps us find and centralize any notes on your case when you call again.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Do you have other support cases open?  Are these cases possibly related?  If so, note the numbers and the names of other engineers working with you on those cases.
  • Why it Helps Support: In many instances, we may assign the same engineer to your new case.  This can help maintain continuity with your cases.

  • What to Include in Your Case: Is there anything else you can think of that will help us respond more effectively?
  • Why it Helps Support: Is there anything we haven't asked that you think can help us to help you more effectively?


Product Details

RSA Product Set: NetWitness Logs & Network, Security Analytics, NetWitness Endpoint, ECAT
RSA Version/Condition: All versions

Summary

The following document contains Important information to provide when opening an RSA NetWitness Platform support case.


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