Manage outages

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Manage outages

With this screen you can manage outages in Cocon. Fibers are linked to an outage. Because of this, clients will automatically be informed of a planned outage.

 

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When you insert a new client/contract in Cocon you add information on how the customer wants to be informed about planned outages.
This function retrieves customer information from customer data and the contract once.

 

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Select the right calendar to plan an outage.

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Set the outagedate on today.

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Use the checkbox to show all outages.

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Show selection in geography.

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Change message text.

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Show all connections for current selection.

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refresh the psa / sa indication.

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To add fibers to an outage you need to select the right outage first.

 
You may perform these actions here:

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Link all fibers, that are linked to the cable work.

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Link all fibers, that are within the drawn cable work (geography).

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De-link all fibers, that are within the drawn cable work (geography).

 

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To remover fibers from an outage you need to select the right outage first.
After this you can select the fibers you wish to remove and press the'"remove fibers"button.

 

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Accept and process the changes.

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Cancel the changes and close the screen.

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To enter a new outage, you must first pressed on the button "New outage". Select one or more dates in the calendar. In the field "description" enter a description at the break. The beginning and end time of the outage must be entered at "Start" and "End" outage. Press the "Ok" button to save the new outage.

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Select the outage and press the button "remove outage" to delete the outage.

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This button allows you to make changes to the outage.

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Generates a phone list in an excel sheet with the related clients of the selected outage.

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Views a new screen with the attached connections which are involved in the selected outage. See chapter 'contracts'

 

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Cocon will generate the ticket number (PA number) automatically after you insert a new outage.

 

 

 

Calendar

By selecting a day in the agenda, the calendar will be opened. In this calendar you can see outages which are inserted. You can also see extra added items.

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Show the calendars per day. You can select the timestamp for the outage.

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Show the calendar in a week overview. You may choose to show a full week or work week only, by selecting the bullet clip0191 or clip0192

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Show the calendar in a month overview.

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In this calender you can also add extra agenda items. These items will get the tag ' general ' with the color red. A new item can be added several ways.

1) Select a certain period and add a description. When you select something else the new item will be saved directly.

2) Select a certain period in the calendar. Press the button 'new item'. To add a description you first need to select the right item. In the field 'description appointment' you can add a description. After these steps press the button 'change item'. Your item is added and saved.

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To change an existing item you need to select the item first. Change the description and select the button 'change item'. Your changes will be saved.

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To delete an item from the calendar select the item you want to delete. Press the 'delete item' button or press the 'delete' button on your keyboard.

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The calendar will be closed after selecting the 'close calendar AGENDA' button.

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Refresh the calendar.

 

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Light blue agenda item: Outage needs to be activated.

Dark blue agenda item: Activated outage.

Purple agenda item: Canceled outage.

 

 

Contract overview

After an outage is inserted it has to be activated. After the activation Cocon will send an e-mail within one hour to all of the clients. This e-mail contains information the outage of the connection. Besides that you can also make an edport from the selected outages by generating a phone list or measure list.

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View the history of the selected outage.

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Send an e-mail to all clients involved in the outage.

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Generate an Excel-sheet with the locations which need to be measured after the planned outage.

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Generate an Excel-sheet with client information which need to be called before the planned outage starts.

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Generate an Excel-sheet with client information which need to be called after the planned outage has taken place.

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After an outage is activated the selected contracts can be removed with tis button.

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After an outage is activated you can deactivate the outage with this button. Involved clients will get an e-mail.

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Activate de outage. Cocon will send an e-mail to the clients involved within one hour.

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Close the screen.

 

 

Outages which are involved in (ring) protection.

 

Various clients, wdm connections and section names can be accommodated in a protection server. When they are registered in this server Cocon will recognizes a relationship between these connections. If one of these connections is involved in a outage the other one cannot be involved in an outage at the same time. In that case Cocon will give a message that this is not possible. The user can accept a new date for the outage which Cocon will suggest.

 

Click here to get instructions for sending emails during outages (dutch only).

 

 

 


Last edited:06-10-2017

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