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Control Center release notes

We're continually making improvements to Control Center to help you manage your services more efficiently. Below, are our most recent enhancements—with links, where applicable, to articles on how to use the new or updated features.

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November 2021

Portal homepage: We are simplifying the Control Center homepage to elevate critical functions for ease of use:

  • Easy access to view notifications
  • Quick view of your tickets
  • One-click access to pay your invoices online
  • Summary view of open orders
Learn more about the new Control Center homepage
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Services: We are integrating all your Network, Security, and Communications services into a single view. With this change, we are renaming the Inventory tab to the Services tab.

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Global navigation: In addition to changing the Inventory tab to the Services tab, you will now be able to shop for and manage Lumen® Edge Computing Solutions using the Control Center global navigation. All Control Center users with the Shop permission will see Edge-related items on the Shop tab. Edge customers will also see Edge-related items under the Service Mgmt, Services, Reports tabs.

Authentication technology: We are increasing the security during the portal login process to help ensure the security of your information and to prepare for future authentication enhancements:
 

  • There is no change to your Control Center username or password.
  • Please sign in to Control Center at least once between November 12, 2021 and December 1, 2021 otherwise you’ll be prompted to change your password after December 1, 2021.

Multilingual options: You will now be able to select your preferred language on the Control Center login page—English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, or Japanese.

Been a while since you've signed in? Here are the additional changes we've made to Control Center recently.

October 2021

Dynamic Connections (Ethernet): We redesigned the experience for creating and managing Dynamic Connections (Ethernet) to more closely align with Dynamic Connections (IP VPN).

Creating connections using your locations:

Creating connections between two cloud service providers:

Managing connections:

Global navigation: We changed the menu labels for accessing self-service products in Control Center. To access these products, click Shop, then click Self-service Products.

Quoting: We added two additional classes of service (Basic and Enhanced) when quoting Lumen® Ethernet Virtual Private Line and Lumen® Ethernet Private Line services.

September 2021

Billing: We redesigned the experience for viewing current invoices and making one-time payments to integrate the two. We created a new page to improve access to past invoices and requested invoice PDFs. We also added search and filter tools to help you organize and track current and prior invoices. With these changes, we also reorganized the Billing tab to consolidate the invoice-delivery options, Autopay, and account groups into a new category: Account Settings.

Global navigation: We changed the menu labels for accessing use and billing reports. They are now labeled Usage Analyst and Bill Analyst. There are no changes to the reporting options available to you.

New product added to Control Center: Control Center now supports Lumen® Enterprise Wireless Access Service. If you purchased this service from Lumen, you can track the status of your order, view your service in inventory, and create and manage repair tickets for your service as you do for other Lumen services.

Self registration: Control Center now sets the self registration toggle to Active for new enterprise IDs allowing you to self-register for access to the new enterprise ID. Want to turn off self registration? Control Center system administrators can turn self registration on or off for an enterprise ID.

August 2021

Alerts & Notifications: We updated the Alerts & Notifications page—accessed from the icon in the upper-right corner of Control Center. You can view billing alerts you've created (or created for you by a system administrator) as well as Lumen notifications (such as release announcements). We also added a new Alerts & Notifications KPI on the dashboard for easy access to your alerts and notifications.
 

July 2021

Self registration: You can now register for Control Center using an order number and service ID.

Self-service ordering: On the Shop page, we removed the Saved Quotes tab and consolidated the information onto the Saved Orders tab.

June 2021

Order status: We integrated the two legacy pages for order status, so you can view all Lumen orders on a single page. You can also create custom views of orders to help you track those orders important to you.
 

Security certificate management: Manage digital certificates for the Lumen security services platform for Adaptive Network Security—Mobility and Adaptive Network Security with Deep Packet Inspection with Basic and Premium Beta service.

May 2021

Billing requests: We integrated the two legacy pages for billing requests, so you can create an dmanage all requests for your organization from a single page. To submit a request, you now select the billing account number, select the type of request, then fill in the fields Control Center provides.
 

Change requests: We updated forms for Lumen® Voice Complete® and Toll Free change requests.

Self-service products: You can now view details for pending inventory and manage your order for Lumen® Fiber+ Internet, Lumen® Hyper WAN℠, Lumen® DDoS Hyper℠, Lumen® Dynamic Connections IP VPN.

Ticketing: You can now download a filtered view of the Ticket Summary page. Control Center includes any columns you customized in the Excel spreadsheet you download.

April 2021

Lumen® Fiber+ Internet: You can purchase Fiber+ Internet using the Shop page in Control Center. If your business needs change, you can also disconnect the service directly from Control Center too.

Network Visibility (beta): You can now access our new network-performance dashboard and reporting, Network Visibility, currently in beta release.

Notifications: We redesigned the subscriptions page and the notifications you can subscribe to—now called notifications. As a Control Center user, you can create and manage your personal notifications for billing, repair tickets, and scheduled maintenance. As a Control Center system administrator, you can create and manage notifications for Control Center users in your organization and even create email notifications for people who don't have access to Control Center.

Quoting: You can now quote IP VPN services in Control Center: IP VPN Port and Access. Quotes are available for 1-, 2-, and 3-year terms.

Scheduled Maintenance: When you view scheduled maintenance for your organization in List view, the In Progress Maintenance section now defaults to be open. We added an option to select the time zone when viewing scheduled maintenance. We also added the service ID to the scheduled maintenance list when you export the data.

Ticketing: We added the ZIP code to the A and Z locations shown in ticket details.

March 2021

Dynamic Connections (Ethernet): You can now open a support ticket for a connection from the list of connections.

Reports: We decommissioned Bill Analyst and Usage Analyst. You should now use Hosted Bill Analyst and Hosted Usage Analyst to view, create, and schedule billing and voice use reports.

February 2021

Admin: As a system administrator, you can now manage security tokens for users in your organization. Security tokens allow users to sign in with two-factor authentication so they can view and manage Security services.

Change requests: We updated the selections for requesting changes to your Managed Network Services (MNS).


Dynamic Connections: You can now create five additional types of connections between two cloud service providers for Dynamic Connections (Ethernet) service:

January 2021

Admin: Based on user feedback, we redesigned the way you view and manage users, accounts, your enterprise ID, and your profile. Other than minor navigation changes, no functionality changed with these updates.

Scheduled Maintenance: We integrated the pages for viewing scheduled network maintenance events from Control Center and MyLevel3. You now can access a single page to view scheduled maintenance events in progress, upcoming, and completed.

November 2020

Ticketing: We updated Control Center to use a single process for tickets no matter which legacy company you purchased your service from. With the new ticketing process, you’ll be able to create repair and activation tickets, view potential repair tickets (where a service may need your attention), and request reason for outage (RFO) reports. The new ticketing page also includes a smart search so you can filter as you type, as well as service utilization and diagnostics (for select services) when you create a new ticket.

October 2020

Global changes: Rebranded portal to reflect new company branding.

Disconnect requests: We added a field to hold additional information when you submit a disconnect request. Use this field to add information such as information about cross connects.

Dynamic Connections: You can now disconnect up to ten connections at once rather than disconnecting connections one at a time.

Quoting: You can now copy rows while creating a quote to make requesting pricing from Lumen easier. For example, you can fill in a line for an address, copy the row, and update the bandwidth to request pricing for two bandwidth options at the same location.

August 2020

Global navigation changes: We added a new tab: Shop. Use this tab to explore products and qualify addresses for new services and to access quoting (based on your permissions). We also moved a few items in the navigation to make it easier for you to find them and updated labels on a couple items. For details, download the Control Center sitemap.

Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS): You can now view your HCS services in Control Center inventory. You can also create and manage repair tickets for HCS using Control Center.

Concierge Community: You can now access Concierge Community from Control Center to view information for your managed installs/builds.

Dashboard: We recolored the KPIs on the dashboard. The open KPI now appears in light blue.

Dynamic Connections: You can now select a class of service when you create a connection: Basic, Enhanced, or Premium/Dedicated. Higher classes of service offer higher availability SLAs and allow you to increase traffic prioritization for your EVC.

Order Status: Child orders are now listed under their parent order. For each child order, you can view details for the order and access the order timeline.

Quoting: Quoting moved to the Shop tab. We also added new router options for you to select when creating quotes.

July 2020

Global navigation changes: We've launched the next integration phase of our customer portals: Control Center and MyLevel3. With this release, we moved the portal navigation from the top of the portal to the left side. The two portals now share common navigation tabs with options under those tabs. Tabs appear based on your permissions and organize portal pages into six categories: Admin, Inventory, Orders, Service Management, Reports, and Billing.

As part of these changes, the portal is now labeled as Control Center and uses a common dashboard. If you used both portals, switching between the two is now easier because you simply toggle between pages rather than changing portals. Where there are similar pages for both portals (e.g., viewing inventory), you’ll see a suffix added to help you differentiate between Control Center and MyLevel3 pages. Where features have been integrated (e.g., managing users), you’ll see a single link with no portal suffix.

Looking for a specific page? Download the Control Center sitemap

June 2020

Billing delivery options: For 8-digit accounts that have migrated to our new billing platform, you can now enroll the account to recieve a PDF copy of your invoice by email. You can choose to have a regular PDF sent or a secure PDF (our recommendation). To see a list of your accounts that are eligible for this option, click the Billing tab, then click the Delivery Options subtab, and then click Email PDF.

May 2020

Dynamic Connections: You can now dismiss multiple unacknowledged connection errors so they don't appear at the top of your list of connections.

Quoting: We've added the building name for bulk quotes.

Trouble tickets: We've expanded the integrated diagnostic testing (available for select products as part of the process for creating a new trouble ticket) to include additional information for the circuit. If the Service Utilization test returns a Needs Attention status, MyLevel3 now displays current input and output traffic categories as well as the top 10 source and destination IP addresses and bits per second.

April 2020

Disconnect orders: You can now extend the due dates for disconnect orders up to 90 days in the future (unless the order's due date is within three days.

Dynamic Connections: You can now create and configure connections to Oracle Gov as a cloud service provider. We've also updated the monthly rates for Dynamic Connections.

Network performance reports: We've added the service ID to the Excel download for network performance reports.

Quoting: We've added the building name on the Quote Summary page (next to the address). You can now view the original quote while viewing order status if the quote was created in the past 180 days.

Security (DDoS Mitigation): If you have two-factor authentication to view and manage your CenturyLink Security Solutions, you can now view your credentials for the DDoS Mitigation portal: username, email address, customer number, and password.

March 2020

Global changes: We've updated our login process to enhance your security. When you click Log In, you'll now see a new authentication page where you'll enter your username and password to access Control Center.

We've also updated the portal terms and conditions (to consolidate the terms for both Control Center and MyLevel3).

Account Documents: When you add a new document to your account documents list, you can now specify whether the document is viewable by all users for your organization or only to users you specify.

Dynamic Connections: We've updated the terms and conditions you'll see (and agree to) when creating a new Dynamic Connection.

Quoting: We've made two minor enhancements for creating and managing quotes. First, if the address you enter isn't found in our database, we've made it easier to access the link to manually add the address. Second, if you submit a bulk quote, we'll keep the quotes in order as you entered them (rather than sorting the individual quotes under a bulk request by issue date).

Trouble tickets: For select products, we've now integrated diagnostic testing into the process for creating a new trouble ticket. These diagnostic tests help us troubleshoot the problem and may provide you with enough information to resolve the service issue without needing to open the trouble ticket. The tests run in real time and results appear as each test completes. You can view details for each test and download a PDF of the tests and results.

February 2020

Dynamic Connections: You can now create and configure connections to IBM as a cloud service provider. All connection options now offer options for hourly or monthly billing.

January 2020

Dynamic Connections: You can now create and configure connections to Oracle as a cloud service provider.

October 2019

Escalate repair tickets: You can now escalate a repair ticket if you need a service issue resolved urgently. You can escalate a ticket only once every hour.

Potential tickets: Potential tickets are tickets Lumen creates when we detect a potential problem on your network. Potential tickets remain open for 48 hours. If you're having issues with your service, you can convert the potential ticket into a repair ticket. If you're not having an issue, the potential ticket closes automatically after 48 hours (or you can dismiss it in Control Center).

Quoting: If your account(s) have bulk quoting enabled, Control Center will now provide a bulk quote if you add more than one quote for products that can be quoted in bulk (E-Line E-Access, DIA). The bulk quote will provide a single PDF with the quotes you requested rather than multiple PDFs.

September 2019

Navigation updates: we've redesigned Control Center to replace the tiles with tabs. The tabs take up less space leaving you more room to manage your services without having to scroll past the tiles. We've also replaced the Products & Services tile with two new tabs: the Inventory tab and the Orders tab.

New Control Center dashboard: we've replaced the old dashboard widgets with a brand new dashboard. The new dashboard provides key performance indicators (KPIs) for your services—based on your Control Center permissions. You'll also see a new Network Map widget with your service locations and any open tickets or orders, a calendar of upcoming network maintenance affecting your services, contact information for portal support, and news about Lumen.

Redesigned billing tickets: we've upgraded the billing request forms in Control Center to help you better identify and communicate requests…which helps us process your requests more efficiently. In addition to new forms, you will be able to view and track the status of your requests in Control Center. You will also be able to add comments as well as attachments to requests. You can now change your billing address by creating a billing ticket (formerly by creating an order).

Dynamic Connections: You can now create and configure connections to Google as a cloud service provider.

Encryption Management: We've added a new network card type (also FIPS-compliant) and made adjustments to the portal for managing authenticaion keys and firmware updates. Help content for Encryption Management is also now available without signing in to Control Center.

Quoting: We've added a refresh button to allow you to refresh the View Quotes grid. We also aded the bandwidth and sub-bandwidth to the View Quotes grid, to single quests and child quotes under a bulk quote, to the Excel export file, and for printing.

August 2019

Quoting: You can now edit a quote directly from the Create Quotes page to adjust quotes before submitting them.

Dynamic Connections: We split connections to AWS into two types of connects: Hosted VIF and Hosted Connections.

June 2019

Network maintenance calendar: you can now view a calendar of upcoming network maintenance related to your Lumen services. You can add the events to your personal calendar as well as open a ticket if you need to request the maintenance be rescheduled (or if you have questions about the maintenance).

May 2019

Autopay: we’ve redesigned the Autopay section of Control Center to make it easier to manage your accounts. Now, you can also easily view accounts that are eligible and/or enrolled in automatic payment.

Alerts & messages: we’ve added portal-related messages so we can provide you updates on portal functionality as well as important messages around portal downtime.

Inventory advanced search: we’ve recategorized the products into five categories—Voice, Networking, Hybrid Cloud, Managed Services, and Security.

Multilingual options: you can now select your preferred language on the Control Center login page—English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Japanese.

March 2019

If your username is assigned to at least one Control Center enterprise ID, you can also select the default enterprise ID for your user profile.

February 2019

Control Center Reporting: we reorganized the Reports tile into four new categories: Billing Reports, Voice Reports, Network Reports, and Other Reports.