Enabling the Customer to self solve issues Miriam Brace's Weblog

Wednesday Nov 04, 2009

I am writing this as I sift through the rejected emails to see what is going on with SunSolve Service Request for Customers. The uptake is strong and growing, and I need to remind everybody of a few house rules for this feature, which will stop you receiving a email notification indicating your request could not be created at this time.



  1. Only Valid Serial numbers are accepted. This means the serial number / item number, must have warranty or current contract. If it's not covered you will get a notification email to call Sun. Remember you can check the serial number first on the Check entitlement for Serial number widget on the home page of SunSolve.

  2. Take note, if you hit the submit key twice only one SR will be created, there is a an automatic feature built in to limit SR for the one serial number to one per hour.

  3.  Be sure to include as much detail as possible, and if you are uploading files to http://supportfiles.sun.com  be sure include a reference to this in the file name in the SR when you create it.

  4. Only the primary contact and alternative contact can request updates to the Service Request or request a summary of the service request.

  5. If the Summary is light on, that is because Engineers at Sun work at the Task level be sure to ask your Technical Support Engineer to keep a running summary of who is doing what next in the SR so you can stay up to date.

Enjoy.