1. What’s New in SAMT – July 2016
This training module is intended for experienced SAMT Administrators, and covers only the enhancements and changes contained in the July 2016 release of SAMT and Cisco Account Manager. Please visit the SAMT Training page for other modules which describe complete end-to-end functionality of SAMT.
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2. What’s New in SAMT – July 2016
Cisco is providing new capabilities for users to create, see and manage their access requests in Cisco.com profile Account Manager, through the implementation of a robust workflow queue.
This new workflow queue also extends into SAMT, providing several benefits to the SAMT Administrators:
View all Pending Requests that require action – Bill-to, Contract, and Software Download (previously only pending Software Download requests were displayed within SAMT)
Easily approve (or deny) the requests right from the queue
“Access Advice,” based on systematic evaluation of the users and the contracts they requested
Notification of user changes that may require access to be revoked
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3. What’s New in SAMT – July 2016
This release also provides additional usability enhancements, including:
Communication preference settings, giving you control over the s used to alert you to pending requests and other user notifications
Display of basic contract information (Service Level, Bill-to Name and Address, Install- at name and Address, Start Date and Expiration Date) directly in SAMT
Ability to create peer SAMT administrators – as a backup, or to administer a subset of the Bill-to-IDs and Contracts you administer
Offline report generation, with notification when the report is available for viewing/downloading
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4. Demonstrations
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5. Requests A new “Requests” tab is added to SAMT
If you have locked your contracts or Bill-to IDs, all user requests for association will appear in your Pending Requests queue.
A new “Requests” tab is added to SAMT
“Pending Requests” sub-tab is your new SAMT “homepage”
Displays submitted Bill-to, Contract, and Software Download access requests that require your action
Even if you have contracts that are not locked, you will still see requests here if Cisco’s automation system was not able to determine that the user’s organization is entitled on the contract.
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6. Pending Requests
A new “Access Advisor” function provides advice for contract requests, based on systematic evaluation of the user and the contract being requested
Currently, Access Advice is only available for individual Contract requests, not Bill-to requests.
Advice is determined dynamically, based on the latest information available. So, you might see a spinning wheel here while the system is deciding what advice to give you.
Once advice is available, it will be displayed, along with a link to Details.
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7. Pending Requests
Access Advisor recommends “Approve” when the system believes access should be granted, but the contract may be locked. If you want the system to automatically associate future requests, you can unlock the contract.
New “Access Advisor” function provides advice for contract requests, based on systematic evaluation of the user and the contract being requested
Access Advisor recommends “Review” when the system cannot determine if the user works for a company on the contract.
Access Advisor recommends “Deny” when there is a problem with the user or the contract. Here, that means something changed after the request was submitted.
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8. Click for Demonstration
Pending Requests
Additional information is also available:
Access Advice details
Request details
Contract details
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9. Click for Demonstration
Pending Requests
To Approve a Request:
Click “Approve”
Provide additional information to be shared with other administrators (optional)
Click “Submit”
Approving while Jim is on vacation.
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Pending Requests
To Deny a Request:
Click “Deny”
Select Reason (required)
Unrecognized user
Unrecognized company
Other
Provide explanation (required if reason is “Other”)
Click “Submit”
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11. History
Once you (or another administrator) have approved or denied a request, it is removed from your queue and it moves to the History sub-tab.
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Notifications
Pending requests aren’t the only things that may require your attention. You will also find important information on the Notifications sub-tab, including:
User changes that may affect their access to contracts
Changes made by other Admins
Reminders
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13. Notification Preferences
You can decide how to be notified of Pending Requests and Notifications
Real Time: Separate for each request (Default / existing behavior)
Hourly / Daily: Summary with number of transactions and a link to your SAMT queue
Never (Recommended for backup administrators only)
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Peer Admins
Note that Access Advice is available here, too.
The advice is based on the same rules as for contract association for service access.
Existing SAMT Administrators can onboard their peers as additional administrators
Peer administrators can be set up to administer any subset of the contracts and/or Bill-to IDs that the original administrator manages
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However, you would normally only grant peer administrator access to people from your own organization.
If you grant contract administrator access to you customer, you must ensure there are no other customers on that same contract.
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15. Offline Reports
All SAMT reports are now requested and run offline. You will be notified by when the report is completed.
You can view/download your generated reports from the Administration tab.
Reports remain available online for 2 weeks.
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16. Access Advisor in Manage By Name and Manage by Number
Access Advisor is also available on the Manage By Name and Manage By Number screens.
Click the Advice icon to perform the systematic evaluation.
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