Symantec SERVICEDESK 7.0 MR2 - IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE... Manuale utente

Symantec™ServiceDesk

Implementation Guide

Version 7.0 MR2

Symantec™ServiceDesk Implementation Guide

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Documentation version 7.0 MR2

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 3

Section 1 Introducing ServiceDesk ......................................... 13

Chapter 1 Introducing ServiceDesk .................................................... 15

About ServiceDesk ....................................................................... 15

Components of ServiceDesk ........................................................... 17

Where to get more information ....................................................... 19

Chapter 2 Understanding ServiceDesk concepts ............................ 23

About workflows, processes, tickets, and tasks .................................. 23

About ITIL .................................................................................. 24

About the core processes in ServiceDesk .......................................... 25

About configuration items ............................................................. 27

About the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) ..................... 27

About Workflow Designer .............................................................. 28

About Workflow Server ................................................................. 29

About ServiceDesk licenses ............................................................ 29

Chapter 3 Introducing ServiceDesk solution software ................... 31

About ServiceDesk solution software ............................................... 31

About the ServiceDesk Solution Console page .................................... 32

Accessing the ServiceDesk Solution Console page .............................. 32

Section 2 Installing ServiceDesk .............................................. 33

Chapter 4 Planning to install ServiceDesk ........................................ 35

About the ServiceDesk installation .................................................. 36

Installing a Symantec Management Platform product and ServiceDesk

for the first time .................................................................... 37

Installing ServiceDesk 7.0 on an existing installation of the Symantec

Management Platform ............................................................ 39

Contents

Upgrading to the Symantec Management Platform and ServiceDesk

7.0 from Altiris 6.x ................................................................. 41

Upgrading the ServiceDesk application software ............................... 44

Server requirements for the ServiceDesk installation ......................... 45

ServiceDesk requirements for the Notification Server

computer ........................................................................ 46

System requirements for the ServiceDesk server computer ............ 47

System requirements for the SQL Server computer ...................... 48

Server configuration options for the ServiceDesk installation .............. 49

Requirements for the ServiceDesk client computers ........................... 51

Adding the ServiceDesk server computer to the Administrators

group ................................................................................... 51

About installing Symantec Management Platform products ................. 52

About populating the CMDB for ServiceDesk ..................................... 53

Information to collect for the ServiceDesk installation ........................ 54

Chapter 5 Installing ServiceDesk ........................................................ 57

About installing the ServiceDesk solution software on the Notification

Server computer .................................................................... 58

Installing the ServiceDesk application software ................................. 59

Downloading the ServiceDesk installation file ................................... 60

Installing the ServiceDesk application software on the ServiceDesk

server computer .................................................................... 61

Installing Workflow Designer on a client computer ............................ 64

Installing an upgrade to the ServiceDesk application software .............. 67

Maintenance page ........................................................................ 68

Server Roles page ......................................................................... 70

Install Location page .................................................................... 72

Server Configuration page ............................................................. 73

Workflow Designer Tasks page ....................................................... 73

Notification Server Credentials page ................................................ 74

Database Connection page ............................................................. 75

Database Configuration page .......................................................... 76

Database Replication page ............................................................. 77

System Accounts Access page ......................................................... 78

Process Manager Configuration page ............................................... 78

Process Manager Authentication page ............................................. 79

Active Directory Server dialog box .................................................. 80

Active Directory Container dialog box .............................................. 82

Workflow Persistence page ............................................................ 83

Symbus ORM page ....................................................................... 83

System Check page ....................................................................... 85

Contents8

Chapter 6 Configuring the initial ServiceDesk settings ................. 87

Configuring the ServiceDesk application software during

installation ........................................................................... 88

Welcome page ............................................................................. 91

Installation Components page ........................................................ 92

ServiceDesk Settings page ............................................................. 94

Mail Settings page ........................................................................ 95

ITIL Process Configuration page ..................................................... 97

Incident Management Configuration page ........................................ 98

ServiceDesk Groups page ............................................................... 99

Sample Data Configuration page ................................................... 100

Installation Preview page ............................................................. 101

Installation Summary page .......................................................... 101

Re-running the ServiceDesk installation ......................................... 102

Setting up the replication database after the initial installation .......... 105

Uninstalling ServiceDesk from the ServiceDesk server

computer ............................................................................ 106

Chapter 7 Installing the Screen Capture Utility ............................. 109

About installing the Screen Capture utility ...................................... 109

Installing the Screen Capture utility with Package Delivery ................ 111

Downloading the Screen Capture Utility installation file .................... 112

Chapter 8 Migrating data from Altiris® Helpdesk

Solution™....................................................................... 113

About migrating data from Helpdesk Solution ................................. 113

Methods for migrating data from Helpdesk Solution ......................... 114

Migrating incidents from Helpdesk Solution .................................... 115

How Helpdesk Solution incident data corresponds to ServiceDesk

incidents ............................................................................. 117

About working Helpdesk Solution incidents in ServiceDesk ................ 118

Migrating categories from Helpdesk Solution .................................. 118

Section 3 Configuring ServiceDesk ....................................... 121

Chapter 9 Configuring the ServiceDesk application ..................... 123

About configuring the ServiceDesk application software ................... 124

Before you configure the ServiceDesk application software ................ 124

Configuring the ServiceDesk application software ............................ 125

About incident categories and the data hierarchy ............................. 130

9Contents

About the incident priority ........................................................... 131

Default priority, urgency, and impact values ................................... 132

How the incident priority is calculated ........................................... 133

About the Service Level Agreement and Operating Level

Agreement .......................................................................... 134

About the Service Level Agreement (SLA) time frames ...................... 135

Default SLA time frames .............................................................. 136

About business hours and holidays ................................................ 136

About Follow the Sun routing ....................................................... 137

About replicating the Process Manager database .............................. 138

About the Service Catalog and service items .................................... 138

Chapter 10 Managing security, users, roles, groups, and

permissions .................................................................. 141

About ServiceDesk security and permissions ................................... 141

About group-level permissions ...................................................... 142

About ServiceDesk authentication ................................................. 143

About adding users from Active Directory ....................................... 143

Chapter 11 Customizing the ServiceDesk portal .............................. 145

About the ServiceDesk portal ........................................................ 145

About customizing the contents of ServiceDesk portal pages .............. 147

About customizing forms ............................................................. 147

About the Customer Satisfaction Survey ......................................... 149

Chapter 12 Customizing the email in ServiceDesk .......................... 151

Customizing the email actions for ServiceDesk processes .................. 151

About automatic email notifications .............................................. 152

About the contents of email notifications ........................................ 153

About configuring the email monitoring ......................................... 154

Chapter 13 Distributing the ServiceDesk documentation .............. 157

Making the ServiceDesk documentation available to users ................. 157

Configuring the Help link for ServiceDesk documentation ................. 159

Linking to the ServiceDesk documentation from a Links Web

part ................................................................................... 160

Displaying the ServiceDesk documentation in a File Browser Web

part ................................................................................... 161

Adding the ServiceDesk documentation to Document

Management ....................................................................... 162

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