The support portal may be accessed at https://continuent.zendesk.com.
Continuent offers paid support contracts for Continuent Tungsten and Tungsten Replicator. If you are interested in purchasing support, contact our sales team at sales@continuent.com.
Please use the following procedure when requesting support so we can provide prompt service. If we are unable to understand the issue due to lack of required information, it will prevent us from providing a timely response.
Please provide a clear description of the problem
Which environment is having the issue? (Prod, QA, Dev, etc.)
What is the impact upon the affected environment?
Identify the problem host or hosts and the role (Primary, Replica, etc)
Provide the steps you took to see the problem in your environment
Upload the resulting zip file from tpm diag, potentially run more than once on different hosts as needed. Alternatively, use the tungsten_send_diag command.
Provide steps already taken and commands already run to resolve the issue
Have you searched your previous support cases? https://continuent.zendesk.com.
Have you checked the Continuent documentation? https://docs.continuent.com
Have you checked our general knowledge base? For our Error/Cause/Solution guidance on specific issues and error messages, and how the reason can be identified and resolved, see Error/Cause/Solution.
You can create a support account by logging into the support portal at https://continuent.zendesk.com. Please use your work email address so that we can recognize it and provide prompt service. If we are unable to recognize your company name it may delay our ability to provide a response.
Be sure to allow email from
helpdesk@continuent.com and
notifications-helpdesk@continuent.com.
These addresses will be used for sending messages from Zendesk.
Login to the support portal and click on 'Submit a Request' at the top of the screen. You can access this page directly at https://continuent.zendesk.com/requests/new.
Send an email to helpdesk@continuent.com from the email address that you used to create your support account. You can include a description and attachments to help us diagnose the problem.
If multiple people in your organization have created support tickets, it is possible to get updates on any support tickets they open. You should see your organization name along the top of the support portal. It will be listed after the Check Your Existing Requests tab.
To see all updates for your organization, click on the organization name and then click the Subscribe link.
If you do not see your organization name listed in the headers, open a support ticket asking us to create the organization and list the people that should be included.
Summary of the support severity levels with initial response targets:
Urgent: initial response within an hour
Represents a reproducible emergency condition (i.e. a condition that involves either data loss, data corruption, or lack of data availability) that makes the use or continued use of any one or more functions impossible. The condition requires an immediate solution. Continuent guarantees a maximum one (1) hour initial response time. Continuent will continue to work with Customer until Customer’s database is back in production. The full resolution and the full root cause analysis will be provided when available.
High: initial response within four (4) hours
Represents a reproducible, non-emergency condition (i.e. a condition that does not involve either data loss, data corruption or lack of database availability) that makes the use or continued use of any one or more functions difficult, and cannot be circumvented or avoided on a temporary basis by Customer. Continuent guarantees a maximum four (4) hours initial response time.
Normal: initial response within one (1) business day
Represents a reproducible, limited problem condition that may be circumvented or avoided on a temporary basis by Customer. Continuent guarantees a maximum one (1) business day initial response time.
Low: no guaranteed initial response interval
Represents minor problem conditions or documentation errors that are easily avoided or circumvented by Customer. Additional request for new feature suggestions, which are defined as new functionality in existing product, are also classified as low severity level. Continuent does not guarantee any particular initial response time, or a commitment to fix in any particular time frame unless Customer engages Continuent for professional services work to create a fix or a new feature.