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Copyright © 2003-2008 OTRS AG
René Bakker, Hauke Böttcher, Jens Bothe, Udo Bretz, Martin Edenhofer, Manuel Hecht, Christopher Kuhn, André Mindermann, Henning Oschwald, Thomas Raith, Stefan Rother, Burchard Steinbild
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Basics about trouble ticket systems
- 2. OTRS - Open Ticket Request System
- 3. Installation / Upgrade of the OTRS framework
- 4. First steps in OTRS
- 5. The admin area of OTRS
- Basics
- User, groups and roles
- Customer users and customer groups
- Queues
- Salutations, signatures, attachments and responses
- Auto answers
- Email addresses
- Notifications
- SMIME
- PGP
- States
- The graphical configuration frontend (SysConfig)
- Using mail accounts
- Filtering incoming messages
- Executing automated jobs with the GenericAgent
- Admin email
- Session management
- System Log
- SQL queries via the SQL box
- Package manager
- 6. Configuring the system
- 7. Sending/Receiving emails
- 8. Time related functions in OTRS
- 9. Ticket responsibility and ticket watching
- 10. Set-up of the pdf output
- 11. Using external backends
- 12. Modifying ticket states and ticket state types
- 13. Modifying ticket priorities
- 14. Creating own themes
- 15. Localization of the OTRS frontend
- 16. PGP
- 17. S/MIME
- 18. Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- 19. Stats module
- 20. Additional applications
- 21. Performance Tuning
- 22. Backing up the system
- A. Additional Resources
- B. Config Referenzliste
- Framework
- Core
- Core::LinkObject
- Core::Log
- Core::MIME-Viewer
- Core::MirrorDB
- Core::PDF
- Core::Package
- Core::PerformanceLog
- Core::SOAP
- Core::Sendmail
- Core::Session
- Core::SpellChecker
- Core::Stats
- Core::Stats::Graph
- Core::Time
- Core::Time::Calendar1
- Core::Time::Calendar2
- Core::Time::Calendar3
- Core::Time::Calendar4
- Core::Time::Calendar5
- Core::Time::Calendar6
- Core::Time::Calendar7
- Core::Time::Calendar8
- Core::Time::Calendar9
- Core::Web
- Crypt::PGP
- Crypt::SMIME
- Frontend::Admin::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Agent
- Frontend::Agent::Auth::LDAP
- Frontend::Agent::ModuleMetaHead
- Frontend::Agent::ModuleNotify
- Frontend::Agent::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Agent::NavBarModule
- Frontend::Agent::Preferences
- Frontend::Agent::Stats
- Frontend::Customer
- Frontend::Customer::Auth
- Frontend::Customer::ModuleMetaHead
- Frontend::Customer::ModuleNotify
- Frontend::Customer::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Customer::Preferences
- Frontend::Public
- Frontend::Public::ModuleRegistration
- Ticket
- Core::ArticleFreeText
- Core::FulltextSearch
- Core::PostMaster
- Core::Ticket
- Core::TicketACL
- Core::TicketFreeText
- Core::TicketFreeTextDefault
- Core::TicketFreeTime
- Core::TicketWatcher
- Frontend::Admin::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Agent
- Frontend::Agent::ModuleNotify
- Frontend::Agent::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Agent::NavBarModule
- Frontend::Agent::Preferences
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ArticleAttachmentModule
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ArticleComposeModule
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ArticleViewModule
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ArticleViewModulePre
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::MenuModule
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::MenuModulePre
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewBounce
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewClose
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewCompose
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewCustomer
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewCustomerFollowUp
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewEmailNew
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewEscalation
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewForward
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewFreeText
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewHistory
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewMailbox
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewMerge
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewMove
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewNote
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewOwner
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewPending
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewPhoneNew
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewPhoneOutbound
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewPriority
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewQueue
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewResponsible
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewSearch
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewStatus
- Frontend::Agent::Ticket::ViewZoom
- Frontend::Customer
- Frontend::Customer::ModuleRegistration
- Frontend::Customer::Preferences
- Frontend::Customer::Ticket::ViewNew
- Frontend::Customer::Ticket::ViewSearch
- Frontend::Customer::Ticket::ViewZoom
- Frontend::Queue::Preferences
- C. Credits
- D. GNU Free Documentation License
List of Tables
- 3.1. Needed Perl modules for OTRS
- 3.2. Description of the several cron job scripts
- 5.1. Default groups after OTRS has been installed
- 5.2. Rights in the user groups of OTRS
- 5.3. Events for auto answers
- 5.4. Function of the different X-OTRS-headers
- 8.1. Unlock Properties
- 8.2. Escalation Properties
- A.1. Mailinglists
List of Examples
- 5.1. Sort spam mails into a specific queue
- 7.1. .fetchmailrc
- 7.2. Example jobs for the filter module Kernel::System::PostMaster::Filter::Match
- 7.3. Example job for the filter module Kernel::System::PostMaster::Filter::CMD
- 8.1. Specifying the relevant working hours for the system
- 8.2. Specifying regular holidays in the system
- 8.3. Specifying irregular holidays in the system
- 8.4. GenericAgent job to send notification on escalated tickets
- 11.1. Configuring a DB customer backend
- 11.2. Using company tickets with a DB backend
- 11.3. Configuring a LDAP customer backend
- 11.4. Using Company tickets with a LDAP backend
- 11.5. Using more than one customer backend with OTRS
- 11.6. Authenticate agents agains a DB backend
- 11.7. Authenticate agents against a LDAP backend
- 11.8. Authenticate agents via HTTPBasic
- 11.9. Authenticate agents against a radius backend
- 11.10. Customer user authentification against a DB backend
- 11.11. Customer user authentification against a LDAP backend
- 11.12. Customer user authentification with HTTPBasic
- 11.13. Customer user authentification against a radius backend
- 18.1. ACL which only allows to move tickets with ticket priority 5 into a queue
- 18.2. ACL, which disables the closing of tickets in the raw queue and hides the close button
- 18.3. ACL, which removes the status for all agents, and only provides it for a group
- 19.1. Definition of a value series - one element
- 19.2. Definition of a value series - two elements

