Support Coverage, Resolution and Response Times

Support Coverage, Resolution and Response Times

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Description

This article is part of the (Legacy) Worldwide Support Services Delivery Guides, which focuses on delivery of support services. Please go here to view the latest guides updated in 2024. 

Citrix reserves the right to make updates to its Customer Success Services packages and requirements, at its sole discretion, from time to time, as business needs require. The relevant Citrix web pages will be updated with respect to any updates as of their effective date.

Table of Contents

  1. Support Coverage

  2. Response Times

Support Coverage

Support coverage is provided based on a customers selected support package and incident severity level. Please see below for the breakdown by package and severity. Note: Severity is determined jointly by the customer and Citrix. For more information on Severity Levels, see the Response Times section.

Customer Success Services (CSS)

  • CSS Core, Advanced, and Select provide Business Hours support and  24/7/365 for Severity 1 issues only.
  • CSS Priority, Priority Plus receive 24/7/365 for Severity 1 and Severity 2 and Business Hours for all other issues.

Appliance Maintenance & Hardware Maintenance

  • Standard Hardware maintenance provides 24/5 (business days) RMA replacement for all severity issues.

24/7/365 and Business Hours Support

  • 24/7/365: Provides assistance for Severity 1 issues for all package level offerings. CSS Priority, Priority Plus, TAM with Gold, or TAM with Gold Plus customers receive 24/7/365 for Severity 1 and Severity 2 issues.
  • Business Hours: Provides assistance for Severity 2 and all other issues, during region’s local business hours of customer’s registered Citrix Account Org ID, Monday - Friday excluding local public holidays.
    For example, customer with registered Citrix Account Org ID registered in America’s region will be supported during America’s business hours only.

    Note: How to find your Citrix Account Org ID

Business Hours per Region (8 a.m. - 6 p.m.)

Business hours support is provided as listed below for each region.

Americas 
  • Americas, EST: USA (EST), USA (CST), Latin America, Central America, Canada (EST)
  • Americas, PST: USA  including Hawaii (PST), USA (MST), Alaska, Canada (MST)
EMEA
  • EMEA West GMT: Benelux Region, France Region, Iberia Region, Italy Region, Denmark Region, Finland Region, Norway Region, Sweden Region, UKI Region, South Africa, West Africa
  • Europe East/Middle GMT+3 (TRT): Czechia Slovakia Hungary, Israel, Poland, Southern Eastern Europe, Bahrain, Russia, East Africa (Egypt), UAE, Saudi Arabia
APJ
  • India GMT+6: India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia
  • East Asia GMT+8: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Western Australia (Perth),
  • East Asia GMT+9: Japan and South Korea
  • ANZ GMT+11: Eastern Australia, New Zealand

Note:  Time zones may vary based on countries that observe daylight savings time (DST).

Response Times

Citrix Technical Support provides a range of targeted response depending on the urgency of your issue. We do not guarantee resolution times–with no exceptions–given environmental nuances that can impact infrastructure products. For a complete list please refer to the table for initial response times:
 

                                       Initial Response Times
  CSS Core CSS Advanced CSS Priority CSS Priority Plus CSS Select Appliance Maintenance
Severity 1 30 minutes <30 minutes <15 minutes <10 minutes <30 minutes 1 Hour
Severity 2 2 Business Hours 2 Business Hours 30 minutes <30 minutes 2 Business Hours 4 Hours
Severity 3 8 Business Hours 6 Business Hours 4 Business Hours 4 Business Hours 8 Business Hours 24 Hours
Severity 4 8 Business Hours 8 Business Hours 4 Business Hours 4 Business Hours 8 Business Hours 5 Business Days
 
Support Severity Levels

Severity 1

Logged via ‘Live Support
 

Severity 1 - Critical Outage: Halts Operations with Financial Impact or relates to a high-risk security issue. No Workaround exists.

  • Conditions that severely impact the primary functionality of the product, halts your business operations creating significant financial and no workaround exists.
  • Issue occurs with high frequency or duration and could require drastic measures to restore services.
  • There is a high-risk security issue, as determined by Citrix.

Return Material Authorization (RMA) Shipment for Hardware Units

Standard RMA: Support will strive to place into shipment a replacement Hardware Unit within 1 business day* after Cloud Software Group issues an RMA number based on a valid RMA support claim by a Customer. 

Customer Participation in Resolution

Customer will have a dedicated resource available to work with the Citrix team while the issue is being investigated. Citrix shall provide ongoing customer communication every day until the situation stabilizes (workaround or permanent fix).

Ongoing Customer Communication

Citrix will provide updates every day until the situation is stabilized (workaround or permanent fix). 


Severity 1 Restoration Targets for Customer Success Services – Priority and Priority Plus

  • Cloud platform uptime availability in any 30-day calendar period. Learn More.
  • Non-Platform Restoration Target:
  • Priority: Severity 1 <6hr
  • Priority Plus: Severity 1 <4hr


 

Severity 2


Logged via ‘Live Support
 

Severity 2 – Production Impact: Service is highly degraded and impacts the ability to deliver services. No reasonable workaround exists.

  • Situations that cause a high impact to large portions of business operations, services are degraded to the point of major impact on usage preventing critical documented functions from working as expected.
  • Workarounds may be available, but not scalable.
  • Productivity is impacted or a major project milestone is at risk.

Return Material Authorization (RMA) Shipment for Hardware Units

Standard RMA: Support will strive to place into shipment a replacement Hardware Unit within 1 business day* after Cloud Software Group issues an RMA number based on a valid RMA support claim by a Customer. 

Customer Participation in Resolution

Customer will identify resource(s) to work with Citrix, upon request, to support remediation (run debug tools, apply potential fixes/ workarounds, etc.). Timing of response to requested actions will be commensurate with that provided by Citrix, unless there is a mutually agreed upon deviation.

Ongoing Customer Communication

Citrix will provide customer with updates every 2 business days until the situation stabilizes.

Severity 3

Logged via ‘Live Support
 

Severity 3 - System Impaired: Features or functionality are impaired, but users can still leverage the service.

  • The issue has an impact on administration, maintenance, operation or other secondary functions or a major issue for which a temporary work around is available.
  • There's a reduction in the software capacity, but still able to handle expected load. With available workarounds, functionality and operations are impaired but can continue with some restrictions.
  • Some operational impairment but users can continue to operate.

Return Material Authorization (RMA) Shipment for Hardware Units

Standard RMA:  Support will strive to place into shipment a replacement Hardware Unit within 1 business day* after Cloud Software Group issues an RMA number based on a valid RMA support claim by a Customer. 

Customer Participation in Resolution

Customer will identify resource(s) to work with Citrix, upon request, to support remediation (run debug tools, apply potential fixes/ workarounds, etc.). Timing of response to requested actions will be commensurate with that provided by Citrix, unless there is a mutually agreed upon deviation.

Ongoing Customer Communication

Citrix will provide updates every 5 business days until a resolution (or date for final fix) is delivered to the customer.

Severity 4

Logged via ‘Live Support
Severity 4 – General Guidance: General usage or configuration questions. No business or production impact.
 
  • Question or issue that does not impact the systems functions and doesn't affect the system’s ability to deliver expected services to end-users.
  • Includes routine technical queries such as usage, configuration, navigation and, feature related questions.
  • Minimal or no impact on business operations.
  • “How to” questions regarding features/functionality
  • Minor errors in documentation

Return Material Authorization (RMA) Shipment for Hardware Units
• Bronze: 10 days
• Gold/Silver and Standard: Next business day
• Gold Plus and Expedited: Delivery within 4 hours after Citrix authorizes the issuance of a replacement Product from the Service Center

Customer Participation in Resolution
Will have resource(s) identified to work with Citrix, upon request, to support remediation (run debug tools, apply potential fixes/ workarounds, etc.). Timing of response to requested actions commensurate with that provided by Citrix, unless there is a mutually agreed upon deviation.

Ongoing Customer Communication
Bi-weekly update until resolution (or date for resolution) provided to customer. Updates provided monthly thereafter, with customer approval.

Issue/Introduction

This Support Services Guide provides an overview of the Citrix support services delivery and program guidelines intended to maximize your investment and get more value faster.

Additional Information

For more information on Citrix support services delivery, resources, and program guidelines, please review the full contents of the Worldwide Support Services Delivery Guide .


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