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Custom Soware Support Service
Services Features and Deliverable Descripon
Juniper will use commercially reasonable eorts to provide
the End User with the Services. The Services comprise access
to Juniper Technical Support engineers who will diagnose a
Custom Soware issue or outage and restore the applicaon
back to working order.
The Services as described in this document are an annual
maintenance contract that can be renewed each year, and
are only applicable to custom soware developed by Juniper
Professional Services. The Services include break-x work only
and soware patches and updates.
JTAC Access
With Juniper Technical Assistance Center (JTAC) support, the
End User will have unlimited access to JTAC engineers by
phone and online 24/7/365. JTAC Technical Support engineers
will diagnose a custom soware issue or outage and restore
the applicaon back to working order, generate workaround
soluons using reasonable commercial eorts, or provide a x
to a discovered defect. Automac escalaon alerts to senior
management are triggered on all priority issues. Customers will
be noed of the availability of a patch or update by JTAC.
For details on JTAC support center structure, how to access
JTAC support, JTAC response me guidelines, problem reporng
and escalaon procedure, case workow, and customer
communicaon guidelines, please refer to the JTAC User Guide.
Online Support
During the term of the Juniper Service Contract, Juniper
provides End User with self-service access to the Juniper
Customer Service Center (CSC) online portal, which provides
informaon, answers, tools, and service opons for the End
User’s use in supporng supported Juniper product. Oerings
include, but are not limited to:
• Online case management: Create new cases, check
the status of exisng cases, update cases with new
informaon, search by case numbers, and search by End
User’s own internal case reference numbers.
Soware Patches and Soware Updates
During the term of the Juniper Service Contract, soware
patches and soware updates for the End User Soware are
included, if necessary, to restore system funconality and are
ed to the specic code release that the End User accepted.
End Users will be noed of the availability of a patch or update
by JTAC.
Soware Patch means minor modicaons to the Custom
Soware to address a specic problem and help restore the
system.
Soware Update means a release to the Custom Soware or
its underlying component parts (such as a soware library)
comprising primarily error correcons (a collecon of soware
patches) to the Custom Soware, somemes also referred to
as “maintenance releases.” Soware Updates do not typically
include any new or addional features beyond what was
provided in the latest available Soware Upgrade.
Please note that a custom soware upgrade or enhancement
is not included, but can be purchased separately from Juniper
Professional Services. A Soware Upgrade means a release
of the supported soware that may contain new features or
enhanced funconality.
Please note that a Juniper Networks Junos® operang system
upgrade or enhancement is not included, but can be purchased
separately from Juniper Professional Services.
Version Control
The Services are ed to a specic release of code. If the End
User changes the version that was agreed upon, then Juniper is
not obligated to provide the Services.
End User Responsibilies
• The End User will provide Juniper or its authorized service
representave with access to the aected network
environment, and will assign a technical contact for
Juniper.
• Furthermore, if Juniper determines that its technical
personnel need access to the End User’s network in order
to remotely diagnose a problem, End User will ensure that
Juniper personnel have the necessary level of authorized
access to such network. The End User has the right to
observe such access.
• The End User will implement any Soware Patches and/or
Soware Updates as directed by JTAC sta and/or Juniper
Professional Services sta.
• The End User will properly train support engineers in the
use and applicaon of the Custom Soware.
• The End User’s support engineers must be procient in
the operaon of the Custom Soware and be able to
perform basic hardware and soware conguraon and
troubleshoong. All communicaon to Juniper engineers
of customer issues and responses will be conducted in
English. End User shall pay for support rendered by Juniper
due to modicaons not authorized by Juniper at Juniper’s
then prevailing rates for me and materials.
• The End User shall inform Juniper about any role changes
or the resignaon of its support engineers so that their
individual CSC accounts can be modied/deacvated as
needed.