Master Service Agreement (MSA) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) to understand our terms, commitments, and service standards.
This Agreement is made and entered into on this __ day of _______ (Effective Date) by and
between WEBBERSTOP INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED (hereinafter referred to as
“WSIPL”), a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, and having
its registered office at C 24, Platina Heights, Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301 India
having datacenter at H223, Rasoolpur, Sector 63, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
201301 and Plot No 13, Bakhtawarpur, Sector 127, Noida and CUSTOMER COMPANY (hereinafter
referred to as the Customer), a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956/any
other specify, and having its registered office at CUSTOMER ADDRESS
Authorized Signatory 1.
2.
Service Hosting at WSIPL ’s Data Centre
This Agreement is effective from the Service Commencement Date as defined in Clause 1.1 (i) of the Agreement
This Agreement provides the right under certain circumstances specified below, for a Customer to receive Service Credits in the event of failure by WSIPL to provide Services to the Customer in accordance with the Agreement.
Customer acknowledges that WSIPL has the expertise and knowledge to provide the Services. The Customer has shown his interest in availing the Services provided by Service Provider by accepting the terms and conditions mentioned in this Agreement and the standard of the Service as provided in this SLA.
In this SLA, the following words and expressions, unless inconsistent with the context,
shall bear the meanings assigned thereto:
“Billing Start Date” shall mean the date of commissioning report submitted
to the Customer by WSIPL. In case the Customer is not satisfied with the solution
delivered by WSIPL, the Customer shall inform WSIPL of the same within 3 days of the
receipt of Commissioning Date. Upon receipt of the objection, WSIPL shall suspend all
Services, make the changes required and release the environment once again with a new
Commissioning Report. In such case the letter one shall be regarded as the Billing Start
Date. If the Customer uses the commissioned set-up, though he has a few outstanding
requests, Customer shall pay full charges from the first Commissioning Report, unless
partial billing is agreed to between the parties, before the Customer starts using the
Services. If no partial billing agreement has been reached and if Customer uses the
Services even after raising objections, Customer shall pay in full from the first date
of Commissioning Report.
“Downtime” (“D”) shall mean the duration of the Service Outage,
calculated in aggregate number of hours in respective month. Where if WSIPL identifies
the service outage, the downtime begins from there on or if customer identifies and a
Trouble Ticket is raised from the occurrence of Service Outage, the time period for
Downtime begins upon start of Service Outage and ends when the Trouble Ticket is closed
by WSIPL subject to due confirmation from the Customer on resolution of the outage. The
time periods are calculated on basis on the number of outages per respective month and
excluding the events covered under headings Exceptions to this SLA which shall not for
the purposes of this SLA be included while measuring Downtime.
“Exceptions” shall mean all the events as mentioned in Clause 3 of this SLA
and shall include either an event or a set of events, any occurrence and the duration of
occurrence of which shall not constitute a Service Outage or Downtime for the purposes
of this SLA.
“Emergency Maintenance” shall mean maintenance carried out under a condition
or situation which poses danger to the system, equipment, network, facilities required
for rendering the Service etc. as the case may be and has to be attended immediately.
WSIPL shall try to notify the Customer about the emergency maintenance in advance,
whenever feasible.
“Facility” means the facility located at office of WSIPL in Noida where
WSIPL provides space, racks for placing the servers.
“Fees” means the amount invoiced by Service Provider.
“Network” means the portion of internal computer network owned or operated
on behalf of WSIPL that extends from the outbound port on a Customer’s cabinet
switch to the outbound port on the border router and includes all redundant internet
connectivity, bandwidth, routers, cabling and switches.
“Actual Uptime” (“A”) shall mean the aggregate percentage of
Total Uptime Hours in respective month during which the Services is actually made
available for use by Customer.
“Representatives” means any person who is nominated or appointed by the
Customer to visit the Facility center.
“Service Credits” shall mean services which the Customer would be entitled
on account of failure of the WSIPL to provide Services as per the standards mentioned in
this Agreement.
“Service Catalogue” shall contain all or any of services/facilities viz.,
back up, dedicated firewall facility, hardware monitoring facility, help desk support,
load balance server, network and power uptime, OS management, shared firewall service
and Version Control described in Annexure A to this SLA which may be availed by the
Customer.
“Service Outage” shall mean an unscheduled disruption/failure in any Service
offered by WSIPL as per this Agreement, due to which Customer’s server is
un-accessible to Customer. The outage of Services due to, but not limited to the
following shall be a Service Outage; Customer is unable to transmit to or receive
information from his network equipment because WSIPL failed to provide facility services
to its network equipment including, switch, router, firewall etc. Failure of Services
like Internet connectivity, IDC LAN etc. shall also be treated as Service Outage.
“Setup Charges”: means all charges which may be incurred by WSIPL for
installing the server or any other expenses incurred for the commencement of Services to
the Customer.
“Support Desk” shall be the location where the Customer should report a
fault. Details of the same are mentioned in Schedule B to this SLA, or if changed, may
be intimated from time to time by WSIPL to the Customer.
“Total Uptime Hours” shall mean 24 hours 365 days a year (year is defined as
period of 365 days)
“Trouble Ticket” means issuing a ticket with a unique identification number
confirming the Customer complaint logged in with WSIPL in relation to a Service Outage
faced by the Customer.
1. SCOPE OF THE SERVICES
WSIPL may provide such Services as provided in the Service Catalogue provided in
Annexure A to this SLA. The Customer may issue one or more purchase orders to WSIPL for
Services and WSIPL shall accept a purchase order only if it is in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and for services as covered by the Service Catalogue.
WSIPL assures Customer that it shall provide its immediate support and assistance in the
event of any disruption in the Services being provided by WSIPL. The manner and time
frame for troubleshooting and the timelines for the resolution of the problems are
mentioned in the Annexure A of this Agreement.
Services will be provided to the Customer by WSIPL with the infrastructure available at
its data center which consists of the following:
WSIPL assures the Customer 99.995 % uptime availability of the Infrastructure viz.,
Power and Cooling** covered by this SLA. Hardware Uptimes SLA would be 4 hours
resolution from the time of detection of hardware problem either by WSIPL help desk or
by the Customer. Subject to Clause 3 of this SLA, in the event WSIPL fails to provide
the Customer with the Services required by the Customer in accordance with the SLA, such
failure resulting from complete unavailability of WSIPL network, such events will be
treated as “Qualified Network Downtime Event” for which WSIPL will issue the
Customer a Service Credit – calculated as per method provided in Clause 2.5.
** WSIPL assures Customer that it will provide cooling @ 21°C (+/-) 2°C and Humidity
levels @ 50 % (+/-) 5%.
The Actual Uptime (A) calculated in the respective month and it will be measured
(compared) against the total
uptime hours of the year 99.995%. If the outages exceed total uptime hours the following
service credits shall be due to Customer:
A >= 99.995% No Credits
A in between 99.994% to 99.000% 2 days equivalent service credit for the Service period
affected calculated on a prorate basis.
A in between 98.999% to 98.000% 7 days equivalent service credit for the Service period
affected calculated on a prorate basis.
A is < 98% 15days equivalent service credit for the Service period affected
calculated on a prorate basis
Calculation of Actual Uptime % = Total Uptime Hours –
Actual Downtime
x 100.
Total Uptime Hours
The Customer is required to provide a preventive maintenance window, once in every
quarter to enable WSIPL to update the various patches and carry out other preventive
maintenance. The time required to carry out this preventive maintenance by WSIPL shall
depend upon the environment of the Customer and shall be informed to the Customer before
the time window is sought. During this window, Customer’s environment shall not be
available and the same shall not be counted as Downtime.
For the customized solutions provided by WSIPL, preventive maintenance is absolutely
essential and the SLAs offered by WSIPL are based on the explicit understanding that the
Customer will provide opportunity for WSIPL to carry out preventive maintenance from
time to time. In case the Customer does not provide, at least once in a quarter, the
requisite downtime to carry out preventive maintenance activities, even after a request
is made by WSIPL, WSIPL shall not be liable to provide any Service Credits or any other
compensation in case of Downtime or any other loss to Customer such as data loss, denial
of service or virus attacks.
WSIPL shall recommend usage of high availability architecture for all critical loads,
wherein there is a duplication of critical elements. For instance, this may be two power
sources to a rack, or two firewalls in the network. In a high availability set-up, it is
clarified that even when one of the elements fail, but the other is still running, then
the entire set- up/solution/system/environment is considered to be available and the
same shall not be counted as Downtime.
2. EXCEPTIONS
The following events do not constitute a Downtime and shall not be eligible to be
considered for any Service Credit:
3. SERVICE CREDIT
WSIPL agrees that it shall provide for the requisite service credits to the Customer in
the event of it not being able to provide the Services for which it had already received
the payments.
WSIPL agrees that on occurrence of any event that attracts service credits the Customer
would be eligible to request a Service Credit on compliance of the terms as mentioned in
Clause 6.1. (a) of this SLA.
Customer shall be eligible for Service Credit for only those Downtimes which has
occurred a month prior to the date of claim and the maximum Service Credit to which
Customer shall be entitled is as mentioned in Clause6.1.(c).
4. PAYMENT TERMS
The Customer shall pay all the charges as set out in the Agreement which includes
one-time setup charges, recurring charges and other supplemental charges for any
Supplemental Services provided including before the Service Commencement Date.
5. PROCEDURE FOR AVAILING SERVICE CREDITS
Whenever the Customer encounters Service Outage, the following procedure should be
followed;
Service Credits will be adjusted after end of existing contract by giving additional
service Days.
6. WARRANTIES OF WSIPL
Additional Warranties of WSIPL in regards to SLA:
WSIPL warrants that it shall perform and provide Services in a professional and
workmanlike manner in accordance with this Agreement.
7. REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMER
Additional Warranties of Customer in regards to SLA.
8. NETWORK SECURITY:
For securing the servers of clients against any NW threats, the following are
implemented: Firewall, IPS and Antivirus etc. However, Customer can opt for dedicated
security gadgets by paying the relevant charges.
9. MANAGING OS AND DB
Setup and administering the OS, DB and HW including the patches updation for the servers
for OS and DB will be taken care of by WSIPL as and when required. OS is provided with
license and accordingly charged.
10. SERVER AND DB MANAGEMENT
OS and DB management will be provided by WSIPL to the Customer, if opted for and charged
accordingly.
11. CLIENT ACCESS TO THE SERVERS
Customer is allowed to access their server only after providing the PO to WSIPL. The
Customer is provided with 1 IP and 24x7x365 monitoring of servers is maintained.
12. DISCLAIMER
With a commitment and desire to offer the best possible technology to the Customer and
evolutions in technology, WSIPL shall upgrade its platform from time to time.
Accordingly, WSIPL reserves its right to change the platform without any change in the
service levels committed.
Schedule A to Annexure-1
As mentioned in the Service Catalogue the following Services will be provided by WSIPL.
In the event there is a disruption in Service or alarm is triggered, the troubleshooting
and resolution of the problem in respect of each Service, where applicable, shall be as
follows:
TROUBLESHOOTING & RESOLUTION TIMES
Priority Priority Definition Mean Time to Assist
(MTTA)/ Response Time Mean Time to Repair
(MTTR)/ Resolution
Time
Updates
High Out of Service –Eg: N/W, Device
Down, Power Down or
Infrastructure down at WSIPL Datacenter Premises. 15 minutes* 8 Hours 1
Hour Interval
Medium Partial/Intermittent Service Interruptions – Eg: System, N/W performance
degraded but still functioning. (For services being provided by WSIPL and inside its
premises) 30 minutes* 24 Hours 4 Hour Interval
Low All Change requests, Access Requests etc. 1 Hour * 48 Hours 12
Hours
• Time starts when the problem is detected by WSIPL Help Desk team or reported by the
customer and ends on assistance/repair as applicable &
• Resolution norms for different hardware problems will depend on the SLAs with
respective vendors
a. 95% of the calls will be attended to within the stipulated response time –
Measured on a quarterly basis.
b. 90% of the calls will be closed within the stipulated resolution time – Measured
on a quarterly basis c. Resolution norms will not include WAN link
In Case Of Outage: WSIPL’s IDC will communicate to Customer any outages related to
Managed Services elements within 20 minutes of observation of fault through NMS or
escalation by its Engineers.
** Logging of complaint is mandatory to ensure that fault ticket number is generated for
further reference & auto escalation through our work flow system.
DISCLAIMER
WSIPL will use reasonable efforts to resolve problems as quickly as possible. As WSIPL
offers this service based on a combination of third-party Hardware & Software, WSIPL
will not offer any service credits to the Customer in case of non-availability of his
web site due to a problem with not having a redundant architecture in their set up. In
such cases, WSIPL will work with the customer to remedy problems at the earliest.
Terms and Conditions
WSIPL reserves the right to modify the server manufacturer at any time. In the event
that WSIPL changes the server manufacturers, customers are assured that the
specifications contracted will remain the same. Please contact us for details pertaining
to any other server configurations that might be available.
Note: In case WSIPL has not provided the licensed software, it is the
responsibility of the Customer to provide licensed software. WSIPL does not take any
responsibility if the customer has not complied to any laws of Licensing.