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Sybase Production Support — Incident Response & 24/7 Monitoring
Named on-call engineers, SLA-backed monitoring, and proactive health checks for Sybase ASE and SAP ASA — escalation paths defined before incidents happen, not during them.
24/7
On-Call Coverage
SLA-Backed
Response Guaranteed
Named
Engineer Assigned
🛡️ Sybase ASE · SAP ASA
What We Cover
Six pillars of Sybase production support
From the moment an alert fires through post-incident review and capacity planning — everything your Sybase ASE and SAP ASA estate needs to stay stable and observable.
24/7 Incident Response
Named on-call engineer with agreed SLA tiers for P1, P2, and P3 incidents. When production breaks, a person picks up — not a ticket queue waiting for Monday morning.
Performance Monitoring
Sybase MDA tables, monProcessActivity, and monDeadlock monitoring with custom alerting thresholds mapped to your OLTP peaks and batch windows — not off-the-shelf defaults that fire false alarms.
Proactive Health Checks
Weekly ASE health reports covering disk space, lock contention, tempdb usage, and slow query identification — catching problems before they escalate into incidents.
Root Cause Analysis
Every P1 and P2 incident gets a written root cause report covering the symptom, the underlying cause, the fix applied, and steps taken to prevent recurrence — not just a ticket closure note.
Backup & Recovery Assurance
Backup job monitoring with alerting on missed or failed runs, weekly restore tests to confirm recovery integrity, and DR run-throughs on an agreed schedule — so you know backups actually work.
Capacity & Growth Reporting
Monthly trend reports on data growth, tempdb pressure, and cache hit ratios — so storage and compute are provisioned ahead of demand, not scrambled for after the fact.
Support Model
Three-tier escalation structure
Every ticket enters at L1 and escalates only as far as needed — keeping Sybase expert time focused on genuine complexity, not routine triage.
L1
First Line Support
Triage & initial response
First point of contact. Ticket intake, priority classification, and resolution of known issues using documented Sybase runbooks.
- Ticket intake via email, portal, or phone
- Priority assignment (P1–P4) — SLA clock starts
- Resolution of known / low-complexity ASE issues
- Escalation to L2 when runbook threshold is met
L2
Technical Support
Investigation & fix
Senior Sybase engineers who diagnose root causes using MDA tables, develop fixes, and manage change-controlled deployments.
- Deep-dive MDA / monProcessActivity investigation
- Lock contention & deadlock analysis via monDeadlock
- Patch development & staging validation
- Escalation to L3 for architectural-level failures
L3
Expert Escalation
Architecture & critical resolution
Principal Sybase architects for P1 critical incidents, Replication Server failures, and issues requiring engine-level or architectural changes.
- P1 critical: production down, instance unreachable
- Replication Server & Backup Server failure resolution
- Root cause analysis & written post-incident report
- Architecture recommendations to prevent recurrence
Service Level Agreement
SLA Matrix
Agreed response and resolution targets by priority — so you always know what to expect when something goes wrong with your Sybase environment.
| Priority | Criteria / Impact | Sybase Examples | Response Time | Resolution Target | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 — Critical | Production ASE/ASA instance down. Business operations fully halted. | Instance crash, login failure, Backup Server down, Replication break | ≤ 15 minutes | ≤ 4 hours | L2 + L3 |
| P2 — High | Major functionality impaired. Significant business impact. | Severe lock contention, tempdb exhaustion, key stored procedure failures | ≤ 1 hour | ≤ 8 hours | L2 |
| P3 — Medium | Partial functionality impacted. Workaround available. | Slow query performance, non-critical job failures, cache hit degradation | ≤ 4 hours | ≤ 2 business days | L1 / L2 |
| P4 — Low | Minor issue or advisory. No immediate business impact. | Capacity advisory, configuration improvement requests, scheduled maintenance | ≤ 1 business day | ≤ 5 business days | L1 |
* Response times are measured from ticket receipt during agreed support hours. SLAs are customised per engagement. 24×7 coverage available for P1/P2 on all plans.
Incident Lifecycle
From raised to closed & documented
Every Sybase incident follows a structured lifecycle — from the moment it's raised to the moment it's closed with a written root cause on file.
Ticket Raised
Email, portal,
or phone
or phone
L1 Triage
Priority assigned,
SLA clock starts
SLA clock starts
MDA Investigation
monProcessActivity
& MDA queries
& MDA queries
Fix & Test
Patch developed
& staging-validated
& staging-validated
Deployment
Change-managed
release to prod
release to prod
Client Sign-off
User confirmation
required to close
required to close
RCA & Runbook
Written report &
runbook updated
runbook updated
Monitoring Methodology
MDA-based monitoring, tuned to your workload
Sybase ASE's Management Detail Architecture (MDA) tables give deep, real-time visibility into engine behaviour — we build alerting around them mapped to your actual load profile.
Sessions & Activity
Process & Session Monitoring
Continuous polling of active sessions, wait states, and CPU consumption. Alerts fire when sessions exceed threshold or when a query exceeds agreed runtime limits.
monProcessActivityLocking
Deadlock & Lock Contention
Deadlock detection and lock wait chain analysis to identify blocking sessions before they cascade. Threshold-based alerting triggers before a user notices degradation.
monDeadlock monLocksTempdb
Tempdb Pressure Tracking
Real-time tempdb space utilisation monitoring with alerts at configurable watermarks — 70%, 85%, and 95% — so tempdb exhaustion never reaches a production incident.
monTempdbActivityCache & Memory
Cache Hit Ratio & Memory
Data and procedure cache hit ratio tracked over time. Degradation below agreed baselines triggers an investigation before query response times deteriorate.
monDataCacheBackup
Backup Job Assurance
Every backup job monitored for completion and failure. Missed or errored runs trigger immediate alert. Weekly restore tests confirm actual recoverability — not just backup log confirmation.
Sybase Backup ServerReplication
Replication Server Health
Replication Server latency and queue depth monitored continuously. Latency drift above threshold raises a warning; queue backlog triggers immediate L2 investigation.
rs_status admin who,rsHow We Work
Support built around your Sybase environment, not a generic template
SLAs agreed in writing before go-live. Response times, escalation contacts, and out-of-hours cover are confirmed upfront — no "best effort" clauses, no vague paths defined at 2am.
A named engineer who knows your environment. They attend onboarding, review your MDA baselines, and are the person paged when a P1 fires — not whoever is on duty that night.
Alerting tuned to your actual workload. Thresholds reflect your OLTP peaks, batch windows, and month-end cycles — suppressing noise during expected load and amplifying genuine anomalies.
How it works in practice
L1 / L2 / L3 support tiers — structured escalation, each tier with defined ownership
P1 response < 15 minutes — SLA clock starts from first alert receipt
Weekly health reports — space, locks, tempdb, slow queries reviewed every week
Post-incident RCA included — written report for every P1 and P2, no extra charge
Sybase MDA-based monitoring — monProcessActivity, monDeadlock, and custom MDA queries tuned to your workload
Monthly capacity review — growth trends, tempdb pressure, and cache hit ratio reported each month
Our Process
From onboarding to live cover in four steps
A structured engagement so monitoring is tuned and SLAs are confirmed before the first incident — not configured reactively afterwards.
Step 1
Onboarding & Baseline
Connect to your ASE or ASA environment, capture baseline MDA metrics across your typical load profile, and agree SLAs and escalation contacts in writing before going live.
Step 2
Monitoring Setup
Deploy custom MDA-based alerting tuned to your OLTP peaks, batch windows, and month-end cycles — not default thresholds that produce noise and missed alerts in equal measure.
Step 3
Live Support
Named on-call cover begins. Incidents are triaged within SLA, root cause documented during resolution, fix applied and verified in the environment before ticket closure.
Step 4
Continuous Improvement
Monthly review of incident trends, capacity reports, and proactive recommendations — so the environment gets more stable over time, not just stabilised after each event.
Tech & Tools
What we work with
Monitoring and tooling chosen for Sybase — not adapted from an Oracle or SQL Server stack. Every tool below is one our engineers use day-to-day on live Sybase environments.
Sybase ASE 16
SAP ASA / SQL Anywhere
Sybase MDA Tables
monProcessActivity
Sybase Central
dBartisan
PRTG
Nagios
PagerDuty
Jira Service Management
Case Studies
Sybase Production Support, Real Outcomes
Two recent Sybase production support engagements — from ending a healthcare network's monthly P1 firefighting to putting a written SLA behind a 24/7 dispatch operation.
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