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OTRS::ITSM 1.3 - Basic

René Bakker, Hauke Böttcher, Jens Bothe, Udo Bretz, Martin Edenhofer, Manuel Hecht, Christopher Kuhn, André Mindermann, Henning Oschwald, Thomas Raith, Stefan Rother, Burchard Steinbild, (all OTRS AG), Marco Romann, Werner Siebecke (Enterprise Consulting GmbH)

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Revision History
Revision 1.3.107/27/2009

Table of Contents

Preface
1. OTRS::ITSM - The OTRS for IT service management
Features
New OTRS::ITSM 1.3 features
New OTRS::ITSM 1.2 features
New OTRS::ITSM 1.1 features
OTRS::ITSM 1.0 features
Hardware and software requirements
Community
Mailing lists
2. Commercial services for OTRS::ITSM
OTRS::ITSM consulting and implementation
Software development
Application support
Managed application services (ASP/SaaS)
3. Installing OTRS::ITSM
Installation
Upgrade
4. First steps in OTRS::ITSM
5. ITIL compliant service support with OTRS::ITSM
6. The CMDB - the central IT repository
The OTRS::ITSM database model
OTRS Framework
GeneralCatalog
ITSMCore
ITSMConfigurationManagement
ImportExport
Services, at the core of everything
Service levels and service level agreements
Configuration items
Documents and knowledge database
Changes and amendments to the data model
Ticket types and attributes
7. Service desk, incident & problem management
Ticket generation, classification and prioritization
SLA relevant time information
Allocate tickets (queues)
Change ticket data
Approvals and decisions
Generation of problem tickets from incidents
Ticket closure
Processing of service requests
8. Change Management
9. Release Management
10. Service Level Management
11. The admin area of OTRS::ITSM
The general catalog
Configurating configuration item classes
Version management of CI classes
Adjustment of ticket state
The criticality impact priority matrix
Adjustment of ticket priorities
12. Additional OTRS applications - calendar
13. OTRS::ITSM interfaces
A. GNU Free Documentation License
0. PREAMBLE
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
2. VERBATIM COPYING
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
4. MODIFICATIONS
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
8. TRANSLATION
9. TERMINATION
10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
How to use this License for your documents