Weekend Emergencies - License Request

Overview

There are times when a customer submits an emergency support request for a new license to replace their expired one immediately. This is problematic when the on-call Support Engineer does not have access to CustomersDot.

This workflow describes the steps to be followed by anyone in Support, regardless of whether they have CustomersDot access, to generate a short-term temporary Ultimate license to de-escalate a weekend emergency.

Scope

License requests for a customer with a paid plan, where the license's "grace period" (14 days after expiration) ended within the last 3 days from the current emergency's date.

Out of Scope

Organizations without a paid plan.
Prospects.

Workflows

Confirm customer subscription

Request from the customer the following screenshots:
- Admin Area -> Overview -> Dashboard
- The license page from Admin Area -> License (in newer versions, may say subscription)
Add the screenshots to the ticket
Go to the Mechanizer emergency license generation tool
Enter your username and the user count for the license based on information from the screenshot
Enter the email address of the person who opened the ticket
The tool will generate and email to the customer a 5-day trial license for the given user count
Put a comment in the #support_licensing-subscription Slack channel to let the team know that an emergency license was generated with the ticket url

Considerations

All licenses generated with the tool will have a 5 day limit. This cannot be changed through the tool.
The license will have generic information. This is intended to facilitate its creation.
If the customer mentions that they haven't received the email with the license, go to our internal request issue tracker and you will see a closed issue with the title: [Success] - Created a license under [EMAIL] for [X] users. That issue will have a copy of the license. If there aren't any closed issues, you can look for an open issue which will have information about the failure. If you find it and no license was generated, you can use the tool again to generate another license.