The present invention provides a method and system for automatically providing
infrastructure maintenance for a customer in response to a customer form/report/ticket
in a communications network that includes a core communications (voice and data
communications) service and an Access Provider service. Typically, the system includes
a Work-Flow Manager and a maintenance program scheduler. The Work-Flow Manager
is arranged to trigger, for each customer form/report/ticket, each automatic software
program/engine of a plurality of automatic software programs/engines in response
to an associated milestone event for the customer form/report/ticket. The maintenance
program scheduler is coupled to the Work-Flow Manager and is used for invoking
at least one predetermined maintenance software program based upon predetermined
criteria being met by the form/report/ticket. The method includes the steps of:
generating a ticket/customer repair request regarding a problem; diagnosing the
problem; testing to determine whether the problem has been fixed; generating clearance
and analysis codes; notifying the customer that the system has repaired the problem;
and closing out the ticket/repair request upon successful repair of the problem.