Watchtower Flashcards
Watchtower launched in this year
2008
Originally a division tool, Watchtower was recreated as a national tool in this year
2009
This online tool gives a real time snapshot and maps all aspects of the HFC Network including power and facilities
National Watchtower
This online tool gives technicians an effective troubleshooting tool for area problems and outages
National Watchtower
This online tool separates residential and plant impacting power events during storm situations so we can direct our technicians effectively
National Watchtower
This tool has helped us change the world, proactively identifying customer affecting issues and addressing them before they have an adverse effect on the customer experience.
National Watchtower
This view in NWT allows you to focus down from a national level to divisional, to regional, to system, and individual node
Hierarchy
This view in NWT shows all open tickets in Queue as well as Processed Jobs
RTM Monitor
This view in NWT shows a quick snapshot of the overall health of the node, number of devices online and any plant related events that are occuring.
Node Summary
This view in NWT shows a geographical location of the accounts in the node with small balloons, and visual representations of plant fault enclosed in blue
Maps View
This color inside an account balloon in NWTs maps view indicates healthy docsis levels
Green
This color inside an account balloon in NWTs maps view indicates some DOCSIS levels slightly out of spec
Yellow
This color inside an account balloon in NWTs maps view indicates some DOCSIS levels are not in a stable range
Red
This type of plant event encloses affected accounts in a dark grey circle and is pinned with a black balloon with a lightning bolt emblem in NWT
Commercial Power Outage
This type of plant event encloses affected accounts in a red circle and is pinned with a blue balloon with a wrench and hammer emblem in NWT
Outage
This type of plant event encloses affected accounts in a pink circle and is pinned with a blue balloon with a wrench and hammer emblem in NWT
Service Call Cluster Alert
Technicians have the ability to edit their user group, service area, and time zone in this tab under User Detail in NWT
General
Technicians have the ability to edit their methods and settings for how to be contacted in this tab under User Detail in NWT
Contact Preferences
Technicians have the ability to build new subscriptions to establish conditional notifications for their job functions and/or subscribe to job notifications for various task types in this tab under User Detail in NWT
Subscription Notifications
This is where you can define methods for how and when to be contacted by Watchtower’s automated messaging system under the admin and workforce options in NWT.
Dispatch Schemes/Escalation Schemes
In the Hierarchy Pane, you can choose between these three tabs to open a tree and display more details
Engineering, Service, Organization
In the right corner of the map in NWT this widget allows you to determine what will be displayed on the map.
Map Setting
The map setting widget has these three categories in which to choose various display preferences for the map in NWT
Map Visual, Device Layer, Topology Layer
This tab in NWT node analysis view allows you to see equipment DOCSIS metrics and account information
Devices