Service Desk Knowledgebase: Request Tracker (RT)

This is the Request Tracker (RT) content page of the CL Wiki Service Desk Knowledgebase. Its purpose is to provide information to the Service Desk team on how to handle problems and requests about this CL service. If you are involved with the provision of this CL service please feel free to add to the knowledge about that it.

If CL staff need to tell the Service Desk team about problems with this service please email
sys-admin-aside@cl.cam.ac.uk.

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Key Service Description & URLs

• The RT ticketing system
• Local System Information
• Email rôle addresses within the department
• Computer Laboratory News (Twitter use @UC_CL_SysAdm)
• The RT system is at https://rt.cl.cam.ac.uk

CL Customer Documentation

NA

Further CL Sys-Admin Documentation

NA

Underpinning Services

N/A

Customer-base for this Service

• All staff and students of the Computer Laboratory

Costs

• Free to all current staff and students of the Computer Laboratory

SLA

• N/A

Service Desk Call Handling Procedure

Escalation points and key contacts to be defined...

• RT tickets can be escalated to the ??? by changing the Queue to "UCS ???" with the Owner set to Nobody. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to our ??? team who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• RT tickets can be escalated to the ??? by changing the Owner to ???". Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to ??? who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

• RT tickets can be escalated by emailing ???@cl.cam.ac.uk and setting the Status to @3rdparty. Tell the requestor:
  I am passing this request over to our ??? team who, I'm sure, will be in contact shortly.

Contacts

Primary rt-admin@cl.cam.ac.uk

Availability

• Monday:
• Tuesday:
• Wednesday:
• Thursday:
• Friday:
• Saturday: Closed
• Sunday: Closed

Hints, Tips & Known Issues

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Categorising Keywords

• Request Tracker RT Job-ticketing System