Updated: August 7, 2023
This Service Guide (“SG”) sets forth a description Managed Services Anywhere offered by Lumen (the “Services”) as part of Lumen’s Cloud Application Manager Service. “Lumen” is defined as CenturyLink Communications, LLC d/b/a Lumen Technologies Group or its affiliated entities. This SG is subject to and incorporated into the Agreement, Hybrid Technologies Service Exhibit (formerly the CenturyLink TS Service Exhibit) and Cloud Application Manager Service Schedule (current version of which is located at https://www.lumen.com/en-us/about/legal/business-customer-terms-conditions.html) between the parties. The specific details of the Service ordered by Customer will be set forth on the relevant Service Order. For avoidance of doubt, any references in the Agreement, Service Exhibit, Schedule, or Service Orders to SSG, will mean SG.
The description of Cloud Application Manager Service is available in the Cloud Application Manager Service Guide.
Lumen's Managed Services Anywhere provides orchestration, monitoring, and management of hybrid IT environments and workloads running on them. Management activities encompass configuration, deployment, patching, troubleshooting, and optimization. These activities are provided for a growing list of managed technologies (see Managed Technologies section below) by a team of Lumen Cloud Application Manager power users leveraging automation.
Managed Services Anywhere is currently available for the following managed platforms, which may be modified or changed from time to time. Managed Platforms means those platforms listed below for which Managed Services Anywhere is available.
The technologies listed below are accurate as of the version date of this Service Guide and are subject to change without notice based on vendor modifications to their technologies and/or offerings. Updates to this list of technologies will be posted as the technologies change.
Operating System, Application, and Database Technologies
The following operating system, application, and database technologies are included in all the Managed Technology environments below. Supplemental or vendor-specific technologies for a particular environment are listed with that environment.
Apache IIS Tomcat |
CentOS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ubuntu Linux |
Microsoft Windows Server Microsoft SQL Server MySQL |
Oracle Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Rocky |
1. AWS
Managed Technologies | EC2 Direct Connect S3 Trusted Advisor ElastiCache Auto Scale RDS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL) |
Cloud Formation EBS Cloud Trail Route 53 Organizations Management Tools |
VPC Cloud Watch Elastic Load Balancing Cert Manager CloudFront Directory Services Identity and Access Management |
2. Microsoft Azure
Managed Technologies | Virtual Machines Load Balancer Security Groups Network Interfaces Blob Storage Azure SQL Active Directory (Azure AD) |
Scale Sets VPN Gateway ExpressRoute IP Addresses File Storage Disk Storage |
Virtual Network Application Gateway Local Network Gateway Archive Storage Queue Storage SQL Server Identity and Access Management |
3. Google Cloud Platform
Managed Technologies | Compute Engine App Engine Cloud SQL Cloud SQL Cloud Storage Data Store |
VPC Service Control ElasticSearch Service Cloud CDN IP Addresses Persistent Disk Big Query |
Cloud Dedicated Interconnect Load Balancing Resource Manager Cloud Deployment Manager Stack Driver |
4. Lumen Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation (LPC on VCF)
Managed Technologies | Edge Gateway VMware vCloud Director service features Active Directory* |
5. Physical Server
Managed Technologies | All Operating System, Application, and Database technologies listed above. |
6. VMware Cloud Foundation and vCenter (BYOC)*
Managed Technologies | Edge Gateway VMware VCenter service features *Management of VMware platform itself is not included in Managed Services Anywhere |
7. HP Synergy Platform
Managed Technologies | All Operating System, Application, and Database technologies listed above. |
8. Azure VMWare Solutions (AVS)
Managed Technologies | All Operating System, Application, and Database technologies listed above. |
9. VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS
Managed Technologies | All Operating System, Application, and Database technologies listed above. |
The latest price plan for Managed Services Anywhere provides two levels of service options—Alerting and Managed—across three different Workload Tiers—operating system, non-cloud-native database, and non-cloud-native web server—that can be set as desired for individual Cloud Application Manager Provider Accounts.
Prior price plans only provide for a single Managed Services Anywhere level of service for individual Cloud Application Manager Provider Accounts.
Levels of Service
The Alerting level of service alerts Customer via several communication options dynamically selected by the customer from Cloud Application Manager monitoring of cloud infrastructure and workloads for Managed Technologies in a manner defined below. Lumen service desk does not monitor or respond to these alerts. Lumen provides Customer support for Cloud Application Manager and configuration assistance on monitoring and alerting features as part of this level of service. It also includes use of ALM orchestration capabilities without separate fees. This level of service does not provide management or technical support for customer workloads.
The Managed level of service includes all of the features of the Alerting level of service; plus the available managed activities described in the section below. The Managed level of service also includes available Lumen orchestration (e.g. deploying a virtual machine, re-booting) of Managed Technologies for Customer workloads and 24x7 management and technical support of Managed Platforms and Managed Technologies within Customer workloads.
Workload Tiers
The Operating System Workload Tier includes the following Managed Technology workload components: virtual machine, operating system, operating system patches, operating system connections, Lumen provided ClamAV anti-virus on the operating system, Apache or Microsoft IIS web services on the operating system, and Active Directory service on Microsoft Windows operating system. It also includes the cloud native elements within the Managed Technologies list above until a cloud native workload tier option becomes available in the future. For clarity, should Customer enable this workload tier, Lumen will provide the described managed activities against these components.
The Non-Cloud-Native Database Workload Tier includes Managed Technology database instances running on Managed Technology operating system instances that are not cloud native database platform-as-a-service elements of a public cloud.
The Non-Cloud-Native Web Services Workload Tier includes Managed Technology integrated web server environment instances running on Managed Technology operating system instances that are not cloud native web server platform-as-a-service elements of a public cloud.
Management Activities
The management activities listed below are available either through the Managed level of service applied to desired Workload Tiers within Provider Accounts for Customers on the latest price plan or through the Managed Services Anywhere level of service for individual Cloud Application Manager Provider Accounts for Customers on a prior price plan.
Lumen reserves the right to require Advanced Managed Services or other upgrades (subject to additional terms and pricing) for any customer request that is not described below or otherwise deemed out of scope. Certain support services may be automated or provided by Lumen designated personnel.
Configuration Management
Remote Administration
Patching and Maintenance
Install available critical and vendor-recommended patches for services running on Managed Platforms. This includes:
Change request activities include risk guidance, testing procedures, tracking metrics throughout progress, roll-back processes and post-deployment validation.
Customers define when or if Lumen schedules patching cycles. Customers are responsible for requesting the installation of released patches.
Access Management
Lumen manages user policies, administration and password management enforcement of Managed Platforms configured within Cloud Application Manager.
Security
Lumen offers access to installation of industry-recognized anti-virus protection intended to secure the OS, taking into account the guidelines of the Managed Platform providers, regular virus and malware signature updates, and offers OS-level hardening recommendations to mitigate risk on the Managed Platform environments. Implementation of other recommended or client-required hardening steps is accomplished via the normal support ticketing process with Managed Services Anywhere. Customer is responsible for all applicable licensing requirements.
Licensing
Lumen will provide support for the following license types for the customer environments that are designated for Managed Services Anywhere:
Watcher Monitoring and Alerting
The Lumen developed and proprietary monitoring service (Watcher), automatically integrated directly with AWS, and Azure, and Google monitoring technologies, enables host, service, and application monitoring of Customer’s AWS, or Azure, or Google cloud environments. The Watcher utilizes an intelligent agent deployed to all managed VMs or physical servers. Monitoring policies are centrally configured and maintained by Lumen certified cloud engineers. When Watcher is deployed on physical servers, enables hardware and OS monitoring of Customer’s private environment.
Lumen’s Watcher uses both agent-based and cloud service provider metrics (for physical servers only an agent is used) to generate alerts on the performance of the applicable record or log flagged for monitoring. Metrics are the result of standard checks that are performed and reported back to the customer and Lumen’s support organization.