Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Trouble Ticket system

Trouble Ticket system

Many Small and medium sized companies are always struggling to find the best suited ticket system for them , if you have a budget constrain why to invest more on Expensive ticket system when you have open-source solution . I had to identify a open source ticketing and change management system , i had to go through many ticket system and review there feature. The best i found was OTRS Open source Ticket Request System , you can download the same from Here.

Below are the features of OTRS , there are lots of plugin's available to

Web-Interface:

  • Agent web interface for viewing and working on all customer requests
  • Admin web interface for changing system things
  • Customer web interface for viewing and sending infos to the agents
  • Webinterface with themes support
  • Webinterface with Single sign on (e. g. HTTPBasicAuth or LogonTickets)
  • Multi language support (Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese, Dutch, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnam)
  • customize the output templates (dtl) release independently
  • Webinterface with multi attachment support
  • easy and logical to use

Email-Interface:

  • MIME support (attachments)
  • PGP support
  • SMIME support
  • dispatching of incoming email via email addess or x-header
  • autoresponders for customers by incoming emails (per queue)
  • auto convert of incoming html only emails to text/plain (to get it easier searchable)
  • email-notification to the agent by new tickets, follow ups or lock timeouts
  • follow up check based on references and in-reply-to header

Ticket:

  • custom queue view and queue view of all requests
  • Ticket locking
  • Ticket replies (standard responses)
  • Ticket autoresponders per queue
  • Ticket history, evolution of ticket status and actions taken on ticket
  • abaility to add notes (with different note types) to a ticket
  • Ticket zoom feature
  • Tickets can be bounced or forwarded to other email addresses
  • Ticket can be moved to a different queue (this is helpful if emails are for a specific subject)
  • Ticket priority
  • Ticket time accounting
  • Ticket print view (PDF)
  • Ticket pending feature
  • Ticket responsible feature
  • Ticket bulk feature
  • Ticket hook divider
  • Ticket event module layer
  • Generic agent to do automatically actions on tickets (based on scheduled jobs)
  • content fulltext search
  • Ticket ACL support
  • Ticket workflow feature

System:

  • ASP (activ service providing) support
  • Calendar / WorkingTime support for time calculations (SLA)
  • Customer Source can be used from a SQL databases or LDAP (e. g. eDirectory, AD, OpenLDAP)
  • TicketHook free setable like 'Call#', 'MyTicket#', 'Request#' or 'Ticket#'
  • Ticket number format free setable
  • database xml interface (driver for different databases including admin tasks like ALTER, CREATE, DROP, ... of tables)
  • database layer, support of different SQL databases (e. g. MySQL, PostgeSQL, Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL)
  • a stats framework
  • utf-8 support for frontend and backend
  • OTRS web package manager (to install applications like calendar or filemanager)
  • agent authentication against database, ldap, httpauth or radius
  • customer authentication against database, ldap, httpauth or radius
  • creation and configuration of user accounts, groups and roles
  • creation of standard responses
  • creation of sub queue
  • signature configuration per queue
  • salutation configuration per queue
  • email-notification of administrators
  • email-notification sent to problem reporter (by create, locked, deleted, moved and closed)
  • submitting update-info (via email or webinterface)
  • deadlines for trouble tickets
  • global TimeZone feature
  • Web config editor
  • Link support of objects link tickets, faqs, ...
  • different levels of permissions/access-rights
  • easy to develope you own addon's (OTRS API)
  • easy to write different frontends (e. g. X11, console, ...)
  • a fast and usefull application

Todo:

  • API to other ticket systems like Peregrine
  • XML interface

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