Cirrus Service Desk

The Service Desk is the first point of contact for all questions relating to the Cirrus facility.

Support is available Monday to Friday from 08:30 until 18:00, excluding UK public holidays.

The Service Desk can be reached by e-mail support@cirrus.ac.uk.

Please try and provide as much background information as possible as this will speed up the processing time considerably. Existing Cirrus users will be asked for their user ID, project code, and, where applicable, the commands they are using and the error message they get.

How the Service Desk ticket system works

When a query is submitted by email it is placed in the SAFE query system.

When you email your query, you will normally get an automatic acknowledgment by email, including a tracking ID, within a few minutes. If you submit your query through SAFE, it will give you a tracking ID at once. A few minutes later, your query will be assigned to the appropriate expert within the Cirrus team to handle.

The expert may contact you to discuss your problem or to get extra information. Finally, the expert will send you an answer, and the query will be closed. At this point the Service Desk will send you another message, telling you that this has happened.

Closed queries are kept in the SAFE database, so that we can refer back to them when solving future problems, and when writing documentation, etc. The SAFE database is protected by the Cirrus Personal Data and Privacy Policy