How-to Guides
The Support Center allows you to request services, inquire, and check frequently asked questions and answers for each service in the Knowledge Center.
Requesting a Service
You can request a service through the Support Center on the Samsung Cloud Platform.
To request a service, follow these steps:
All Services > Management > Support Center menu, click on it. It will move to the Service Home page.
On the Service Home page, click on the Service Request menu. It will move to the Service Request List page.
On the Service Request List page, click on the Service Request button.
- Select and enter the required information for the service request.
| Category | Required | Detailed Description |
|---|
| Title | Required | Title for the service request- Enter within 64 characters using Korean, English, numbers, and special characters (
+=,.@-_)
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| Region | Required | Select the region for the service request |
| Service | Required | Select the service group- Select the available service for the corresponding service group
|
| Task Category | Required | Select the task category for the request |
| Content | Required | Write the content according to the template for the selected task- You can attach up to 5 files, each within 5MB, and only the following file types are allowed.
(doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, hwp, txt, pdf, jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tif) |
Table. Service Request Items
Review the input information and click the Request button.
- Once created, you can check it on the Service Request List page.
Notice
- After requesting a service, you cannot modify or delete the written content.
Checking Service Request Details
The service request allows you to check the entire list and detailed information of service requests and track their progress.
To check the service request details, follow these steps:
- All Services > Management > Support Center menu, click on it. It will move to the Service Home page.
- On the Service Home page, click on the Service Request menu. It will move to the Service Request List page.
- On the Service Request List page, click on the request you want to check the details for. It will move to the Service Request Details page.
| Category | Detailed Description |
|---|
| Status | Service request status- Requesting: Initial application status
- Assignment Complete: Status assigned to the worker
- In Progress: Status being processed by the worker
- Completed: Status completed by the worker
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| Inquiry Code | Unique identification code for the service request |
| Task Category | Task category selected when requesting the service |
| Inquiry Target | Service group and service name selected when requesting the service |
| Region | Region selected when requesting the service |
| Creator | User who requested the service |
| Request Time | Time when the service request was created |
| Title | Service request title |
| Content | Content written when requesting the service |
| Attachment | File attached when requesting the service |
Table. Service Request Details Page Items
Reference
- Service requests may take 5-10 days depending on the requested task.
1 - Inquiry
Users can ask questions and check answers about the Samsung Cloud Platform through the inquiry.
Create Inquiry
You can create an inquiry through the Support Center on the Samsung Cloud Platform.
Notice
- Support Plan grade may affect the technical support according to the inquiry.
- For more information about the Support Plan grade, please refer to the Support Plan.
To create an inquiry, follow the procedure below.
- 모든 서비스 > Management > Support Center menu should be clicked. It moves to the Service Home page.
- On the Service Home page, click the Contact Us menu. It moves to the Contact Us List page.
- On the Inquiry List page, click the Inquiry button.
- Please select and enter the information required for inquiry.
| Classification | Necessity | Detailed Description |
|---|
| Title | Required | Title of the inquiry- Enter within 64 characters
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| Inquiry Type | Required | Select the inquiry type- Functional Inquiry: Inquiry about the use and utilization of functions, requiring additional selection or input of Region, Inquiry Target (Service Group/Service), and Resource Name
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| Inquiry Type | Required | Select the inquiry type- Depending on the inquiry type, you may need to additionally input/select Region, Inquiry Target, and Resource Name.
|
| Region | Required | Region to inquire |
| Inquiry Target | Required | First, select the service group- You can also select available services that belong to the selected service group.
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| Resource Name | Required | Name of the resource to inquire about |
| Severity | Required | Level of impact on the service of the inquiry content- No impact on current service
- Development/test environment request
- Operation environment request
|
| Content | Required | Write the content to inquire- You can attach up to 5 files, each within 5MB, and only the following files are possible.
(doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, hwp, txt, pdf, jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tif) |
Table. Inquiry Items
Notice
In the case of a disability inquiry type, it is a type of inquiry for Samsung Cloud Platform disabilities where some features of the operating environment are not available or features of non-operating environments such as development/test are not available.
- Check the input information and click the request button.
- Once creation is complete, please check on the Inquiries List page.
Check the details of the inquiry
Inquiries can be viewed with a list of all inquiries and detailed information, and the progress can be checked.
To check the inquiry details, please follow the following procedure.
- 모든 서비스 > Management > Support Center menu should be clicked. It moves to the Service Home page.
- On the Service Home page, click the Inquiry menu. It moves to the Inquiry List page.
- On the Inquiry List page, click the request to view detailed information. It moves to the Inquiry Details page.
| Classification | Detailed Description |
|---|
| Status | Inquiry Status- Inquiry Received: Initial inquiry reception status
- Waiting for Response: Person in charge is checking the inquiry contents
- Response Completed: Response has been completed
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| Inquiry Code | Unique identification code of Inquiry |
| Inquiry Target | Service group and service name selected when inquiring |
| Resource Name | Resource name entered when inquiring |
| Region | Region selected when inquiring |
| Severity | Severity selected when inquiring |
| Writer | User who requested inquiry |
| Request Time | Time Created Inquiry |
| Title | Inquiry Title |
| Content | Content written when inquiring |
| Attachment | File attached when inquiring |
Table. Inquiry Details Page Items
2 - Support Plan
Support Plan is a service that provides technical support, standard architecture provision, and incident response support needed when using Samsung Cloud Platform, which can be received in a step-by-step manner.
Since service operating hours, technical support, and incident response service types differ by service tier, users can choose an efficient service tier based on the applicable workload such as testing, regular tasks, or critical tasks.
Notice
Samsung Cloud Platform, through the Support Plan, does its best to respond and take action within the appropriate time after an initial request occurs.
Support Plan Learn about
Samsung Cloud Platform offers Support Plans of Standard, Proserv Plan tiers.
To check the Support Plan you are currently using, follow the steps below.
- All Services > Management > Support Center Click the menu. Service Home Navigate to the page.
- Click the Support Plan menu on the Service Home page. Navigate to the Support Plan page.
| Category | Detailed description |
|---|
| Support Plan Application Status | Current application status of Support Plan- Active: Normal applied status. No changes scheduled
- In Progress: Change scheduled status
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| Plan Change | Button to change the applied Support Plan |
| Support Plan type | Support Plan names and descriptions by tier- Current Plan: Currently applied Support Plan tier
- Plan to be changed: Support Plan tier to be applied after plan change
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Table. Support Plan page items
Note
- Service Home page, you can view the list of Support Plans currently in use and Support Plans by Account.
- The list of Support Plans per Account can only be viewed in the organization management Account.
Standard Grade
Standard grade is recommended for cases where you need to handle tasks that are experimental or require testing.
| Category | Detailed description |
|---|
| Service Target | Recommended for experiments or testing |
| Response Time | - General Inquiry (Priority 4): within 1 business day
|
| Operating Hours | 9H * 5D Biz Hour |
| Request / Response Method | On-line (Console) |
| Support Services | - Update, patch and EOS (EOL) management and announcement (Console)
- Technical Knowledge material provision (On-line)
|
| Incident response | Reception (action and notification) |
| fee | free |
Table. Standard grade service details
Proserv Plan Grade
Proserv Plan grade is the recommended minimum grade when there is a production workload.
| Category | Detailed description |
|---|
| Service Target | Recommended for production workloads |
| Response Time | - System Outage (Priority 1): Within 1 hour
- System Damage (Priority 2): Within 4 hours
- System Error (Priority 3): Within 1 business day
- General Inquiry (Priority 4): Within 1 business day
|
| Operating Hours | 24H * 7D |
| Request / Response Method | Dedicated TAM Assignment (Phone, Email, Online (Console)) |
| Support Services | - Technology, standard architecture response
- Update, patch and EOS (EOL) management and announcement (Console)
- Providing technical knowledge materials (On-line)
|
| Incident Response | - Samsung Cloud Platform incident handling, analysis support
- Connection to specialized operations organization and response support
- Provision of Samsung Cloud Platform incident cause and analysis report (common)
|
| Fee | Monthly usage fee per customer * tiered rate (differential) applied- 200 million ~ 500 million KRW: 7%
- 500 million ~ 1 billion KRW: 5%
|
Table. Proserv Plan grade service details
Support Plan Change
Depending on the situation, you can apply changes to the Support Plan.
Notice
Support Plan’s application, termination, and changes are applied based on the request, effective from the 1st of each month.
To change the Support Plan you are using, follow the steps below.
- All Services > Management > Support Center Click the menu. Service Home Navigate to the page.
- Service Home page, click the Support Plan menu. Support Plan page will be opened.
- My Support Plan widget, by clicking the Plan Upgrade or Plan Change button, you can also go to the Support Plan Change page.
- Support Plan on the page Plan Change button click. Support Plan Change to the page navigate.
- Support Plan Change page, after selecting the Support Plan to change, click the Plan Change button.
- Support Plan when the popup notifying a change request opens, click the Confirm button. Navigate to the Support Plan page.
- Verify that the Support Plan application status has changed to In Progress and that the plan to be changed item is displayed for the Support Plan to be changed.
- Cancel Plan Change If you click the button, the change request is canceled and the current Support Plan continues to be maintained.
Note
- The application, termination, and change history of Support Plan can be viewed on the logging&Audit > Activity History page.
- Change history is provided free of charge for up to 90 days.
3 - Knowledge Center
Users can search and check frequently asked questions and answers for each service in the Knowledge Center.
Using Knowledge Center
You can check the list of frequently asked questions for each service and check the answers.
To use the Knowledge Center, follow these steps:
- Click All Services > Management > Support Center menu. It moves to the Service Home page.
- Click the Knowledge Center menu on the Service Home page. It moves to the Knowledge Center list page.
- Select the category you want to check and check the list. If you want to check the details of an item, select it. You can check detailed information on that page. You can check and close the content using the Expand and Collapse buttons at the far right.