Severity Classification

Severity Classification

The incident severity levels and definitions are provided in the table below.

Severity Level Description
Severity 1 - Emergency

The presence of a severity 1 situation implies that business operations are severely affected.

The situation has one or more of the following characteristics:

  • direct / indirect loss of revenue
  • business service is not operational
  • partial or complete outage of the production system
  • data integrity at risk
  • production backup and recovery operations fail

Customer resources should be available to work on a 24/7 basis with Enigmatec to resolve the issue.

Severity 2 - Major

The presence of a severity 2 situation implies that certain functions are significantly affected.

The situation has one or more of the following characteristics:

  • no reasonable, operational or procedural workaround is available
  • causes a loss of performance
Severity 3 - Medium The presence of severity 3 implies that there is a moderate impact to functions but the situation can be circumvented so that operations may continue; a minimal affect on performance, but with no business impact to the end user.
Severity 4 - Minor The presence of a severity 4 implies that there is an incorrect behaviour within Enigmatec's product, but the situation does not impede operations and results in no business impact to the end user.
Severity 5 - Consultation Request Consultation refers to any matter related to the function of, or facilities provided by the licensed program.

Service Level Definitions

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