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(Installation, Configuration & Customization)
Table of Contents 1. Service Desk a. Email Configuration b. User Management c. Contact Management d. Rights Management e. Service Management 2. SQL Server 2005 Installation 3. Service Desk Server Installation 4. General Configuration a. Install Service Desk license b. Email Configuration for notifications c. LDAP Configuration for Importing Contacts (5 Users) 5. Configure Organization details Up to 2 Numbers a. Creation of Location b. Creation of Work Shift c. Creation of Organization 6. Announcements & Knowledge Base Documents Up to 5 Numbers a. Announcements Creation b. Knowledge Documents i. Importing the Knowledge Documents to Service Desk 7. Groups & Roles Creation Up to 2 Numbers a. Group Creation b. Assigning the Engineers to the group c. Role Creation d. Assigning the Role to the contact 8. Service Request Management upto 2 Numbers a. Macro Creation b. Events Creation c. Service Type Creation d. Incident Area Creation 9. Integration of Service Desk and ITCM a. Steps involved in Integration b. Importing Assets into Service Desk c. Mapping the Assets to contacts 10. BOXI Installation 11. BOXI Configuration 12. Integration of BOXI and LDAP 13. Integration of BOXI and Service Desk 14. Reports a. Designing the Reports b. Creation of Reports c. Publishing the Reports in Service Desk
15. Published Reports a. Total Volume of Incidents Opened b. Total Volume of Incidents Closed c. Total Volume of Incidents Opened & Closed d. Total Volume of Incidents within specified Date Range e. No. of Closed Incidents based on Incident Area f. No. of Closed Incidents based on Firm g. Total No. of Closed Incidents within specified Date Range h. No. of Closed Incidents based on Incident Area i. No. of Closed Incidents based on Firm j. Total No. of Closed Incidents within specified Date Range 16. User Operation a. Ticket Creation by User b. Transferring ticket to Engineer c. Ticket closing by Analyst d. Method for viewing the report by Analyst 17. Service Desk Customization a. How to Auto Refresh the ticket listing page? b. How to change the Copyright Information of the product? c. How to make the Fields mandatory in ticket creation page? d. How to make the Status value from lookup to dropdown in Ticket Detail Page for Analyst view? e. How do we redirect users to a web page when they log out from the Service Desk web page? f. How to change the CA Service Desk browser window title bar name? g. How to change CA Service Desk name in the login page? h. How to change CA Logo in the login page? i. How to change the CA Logo in the users Home Page? j. How to update the patches for the Service Desk? k. Steps for reinstalling the Service Desk Server 18. Basic Administration & User Operational Training a. How to install Service Desk (Show installation snapshots) b. How to create contacts (Show snapshots) c. How to create Roles (Show snapshots) d. How to create groups (Show snapshots) e. How to create incident area (Show snapshots) f. How to create Service Type (Show snapshots) g. How to create Service Desk Ticket (Show snapshots) h. How to transfer the ticket (Show snapshots) i. How to close Service Desk ticket by Analyst (Show snapshots) 19. User level operation document
CA SERVICE DESK
Version r12.1 CA Service Desk from Computer Associates is one of the most advanced tools for delivering superior user support services in heterogeneous UNIX and Windows computing environments. CA Service Desk is a comprehensive, integrated solution for the total automation and management of both external (customer support) and internal (enterprise service center management) service desks.
The various modules of service desk need to be configured for smooth functioning of the product. According to the scope of work defined the following modules need to be customized. Email Configuration User management Contact Management Rights Management Service Management Interface Management & Customization
Email Configuration
Email configuration is required for automatic notifications. The following form was filled up in consultation with the client. The recipients of notification mail have also been configured as per the escalation chart provided. A detail of escalation chart is available under the heading Service Level Agreements.
Table 1 GCL-UCSD1: Email Configuration
Sl.No 1 2 3
Item Mail Service Protocol Mail Server IP Mail Server Domain Name
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
SMTP Port Number IMAP Port Number POP Port number Mail From Address Mail Reply To address Default User Password * Mail SMTP Security Level Allow Anonymous Email Service Maximum SMTP concurrent Connections Email Attachment Directory Emails Unprocessed Save location
25 None nd-itcasd@ndv.com nd-itcasd@ndv.com p@ssw0rd12 No Security (0) / Simple Security (1) / NTLM (2) / MD5 (3) Yes / No Default Default Default
* On Project Completion, password needs to be changed. Kindly follow the best practices for password selection. Ensure that the password is maintained safe.
User Management
Service Desk supports the following roles by default. The roles were designed by Service Desk based on general requirements and best practices observed in companies and are customizable. Administrators Analyst Employees
Administrator The roles are customized to individual users of the company based on special requirements of the company. Roles within a Company are captured during site survey and used as input during the customization phase. Employees authorized to interact with the Service desk are mapped to the above roles. NDV requested for one Administrator login with all relevant rights. An administrator login has been created for the same. Analyst
Certain employees are authorized to interact with the Service desk in the capacity of analyst. One analyst login is available with NDV, Vizag. Analyst login was configured as indicated in the following table. Required Analyst rights have been configured for the account created. [Details of Rights Refer section Rights].
Table 2: Groups
Sl.No 1 2 3 4 5 6
Analyst Name Helpdesk 14 Engineers Facility Manager Network Admin Software Admin MIT
Employee The other members of the company play the role of employee with respect to Service Desk. Employees can also be internal customers. Hence a few employees are mapped to the service desk as Customers.
Table 3: GCL-UCSD2: User Interface Roles Data Capture form
Email-id
Contact Management
Service Desk uses an exhaustive contact table. The details of the contact table are as shown. Contact details were collected from the NDV Vizag as applicable to their organization. Contact details were imported from Active Directory by integrating with Active Directory.
Table 4:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Contact Details Last Name* First Name Middle Name Contact Type Status Contact ID System Login* Service type
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 22 23 24
Data Partition Access Type* Location Organization Phone Number Notification Telephone Number Fax Number Pager Number Alternate Phone Email address* Notification Method: Low/Normal/High/ emergency* Work shift For notification methods
Rights Management
The roles supported by Service Desk are provided with different levels of rights to interact with the Service Desk. Administrator: Full Rights Analyst: Skeleton (View, Pre-update, Delete) Object Indexes (View, Pre-update, Delete) Attachment (View, Pre-update, Delete) Attachment Folder (View, Pre-update, Delete) Call_Req (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Change request (View, Preupdate, create, delete) ca_contact (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Issue (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Employees: Call_Req (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Change request (View, Pre-update, create, delete) ca_contact (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Issue (View, Pre-update, create, delete) Skeletons (View, Pre-update, delete) Object Indexes (View, Preupdate, Delete) Attachment (View, Pre-update, Delete) Attachment Folder (View, Pre-update, Delete)
Service Management
The following service types are implemented in NDV, Vizag
08Hrs Resolution Hardware.Desktop.CPU Hardware.Desktop.Keyboard Hardware.Desktop.Monitor Hardware.Desktop.Mouse Hardware.Desktop.Others Hardware. Laptop Hardware.UPS Internet. Internet Connection Internet.PC Problem Network.Modem Network.Router Printer.3 in 1 Printer.Deskjet Printer.Dot Matrix Printer.Laserjet Printer.Line Printer Printer.Officejet Printer.Plotter Printer.Scanner Software.Adobe Reader Software.Internet Explorer Software.MS Office Software.OS Software.Others Software.Outlook Web Applications.AOA Web Applications.BMS Web Applications.Common Login Web Applications.EMAT Web Applications.HMS Web Applications.PIMS Web Applications.SDRS Web Applications.WEPPS Web Applications.WEQCS Web Applications.WEWI
Click Install
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Click Advanced
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Choose Mixed Mode. Password: p@ssw0rd001 Confirm Password: p@ssw0rd001 Click Next
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Run Setup
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Privileged User Password: p@ssw0rd001 Restricted User Password: p@ssw0rd001 Click Next
Put a checkmark on Load Default Data Put a checkmark on Use ITIL methodology Type the Database Password: p@ssw0rd001 SQL Listening Port: 1433 Click Next
Select Config Type - Tomcat and IIS http Server (default) Click Next
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Installation Configuration
b) Load the license Import the license file from CA site and copy it in notepad and save the file as ca.olf. Paste ca.olf file to D:\Program Files\CA\SC\CA_Lic
Points to Remember To check whether IIS service is enabled in Service Desk Server,
Simple test Go to run command, type inetmgr, we should see the IIS Window. If it is not open, it will show the error. Solution: Insert the OS CD and go to control panel Choose Add or Remove Programs Click on Add or Remove windows components tab Double click on Application Server components Enable Internet Information Service (IIS).
Email Configuration
Login to Service Desk Web Client -> Select the Administration -> Option Manager -> Email
6) Click mail_from_address Edit Install. For Option value, provide the mail address which is exclusively used for SD.
7) Click mail_login_password Edit Install. For Option value, provide the mail address password.
Password: p@ssw0rd12
8) Click mail_login_userid Edit Install. For Option value, provide the mail address same as mail_from_address
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LDAP Configuration
(Importing the users from ADS)
1) In Command prompt, Create backup directory C :\> md backup C :\> cd backup C:\backup> ldifde -f ldapusers.txt -s <Server Computer Name> -r (objectClass=user) -b administrator <domain name> <domain password> For NDV, it should be as shown below: C:\backup> ldifde -f ldapusers.txt -s ndvdc1 -r "(objectClass=user)" -b nd-caadmin ndv p@ssw0rd12 2) Open the text file named ldapusers.txt, its available in the <C:\backup>, Copy the First line in the notepad CN=dydlanadmin,OU=NDVUSERS,OU=ADMIN,DC=ndv,DC=com 3) Open the Service desk in Web Client and log in as administrator.
10) Select ldap_host Edit Option value provide the <Server Name> Install
12) Select ldap_pwd Edit Option value provide the <Domain Password> Install
13) Select ldap_search_base Edit Option value provide the DC=<Domain name>, DC=com -> Install
23) Select the desire user to SD Contact. Right Click the contact Click Merge Into Contact
Make sure the below information is filled in: Contact Type Employee Access Type Employee Data Partition Employee Under Notification tab in the bottom of the page, Select Workshift as 24 Hours Click Save
a)
Location Configuration Select the Administration Service Desk Codes Location Create New
Provide the Location Name as Vizag Save Under Administration tab Security Contacts Click on the contact Edit under Address tab select the location as Vizag
b) Workshift Configuration Select the Administration -> Service Desk -> Codes -> Workshifts Create New
Provided the name as NDV Provided the timings of NDV as below: Mon - Sat { 8:30 am - 5:30 pm } Added the list of holidays to the workshift to avoid SLA firing on holidays.
Organization Configuration Select the Administration -> Service Desk -> Codes -> Organization Create New
Provide the name as NDV Click Save Under Administration tab Security Contacts Click on the contact Edit under Organizational Info tab Click Functional Organization Search Select NDV Save
a)
Announcement Creation
Click Save
Announcement created successfully. Announcement Type: 1. Routine Announcement will be displayed in Black 2. Advisory Announcement will be displayed in Orange 3. Emergency Announcement will be displayed in Red Announcement will be displayed to whom the Location & Organizational Info filled in their contact details.
b)
1. Go to $NX_ROOT\samples\data and unzip SampleData.zip into the same directory. 2. There are four batch files located at $NX_ROOT/bin. These can be run from the command prompt. a. ImportSampleData.bat loads all the sample data files (ImportKnowledgeBroker.bat, ImportPCHowTo.bat and ImportRightAnswers.bat) b. ImportKnowledgeBroker.bat sample data provided by Knowledge Broker c. ImportPCHowTo.bat sample data provided by PCHowTo d. ImportRightAnswers.bat sample data provided by Right Answers
a) Group Creation
Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Security & Role Management Groups
Click Search
Select the desired contacts from left side and move it to right side using >>. c) Roles Creation
Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Security & Role Management Role Management Role List
Role Name NMS Engineer Code engr Customization Form Group ndvengr Click Save Role created successfully.
Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Security & Role Management Contacts
Click Search
Open the corresponding contact detail who is performing the network role. Click on Roles tab at the bottom of the page.
Click Search
Select the Role from left side and move it to right side. Click Ok.
a) Macro Creation Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Events and Macros Macros
1. Provide the Name 2. Macro type : Multiple notification 3. Object Type : Request/Incident/Problem Click Continue Click on Message Template
Auto-Notification: Put a Checkmark Notify Level: Normal Notification Message Title: Level 1 Escalation - @{type.sym} @{ref_num} Notification Message Body: Level 1 Escalation - @{type.sym} @{ref_num} Assigned to: @{assignee.combo_name} End User : @{customer.combo_name} Action Taken : @{summary} Click on the following URL to view @{type.sym}; @{web_url} Click Save
Message Template is filled with the template we created now. Click on Contacts tab below and click Update Contacts Click Search Select the desired contacts to be notified for this macro -> Click Ok.
b) Events Creation
Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Events and Macros Events
Click Create New 04Hrs Resolution Initial Name * Object Type Description
04Hrs Resolution Initial Request/Incident/Problem 04Hrs Resolution Initial
Delay Time Repeat Delay time Work Shift Allow Time Resetting
Note: After saving the data, the Condition will be enabled and select the condition based on the requirement Condition Req.Status = Open
Click Save
Put a checkmark on Set SLA Violation for Actions on True Macro Click Save Click Edit Click Update Actions on True
04Hrs Resolution Initial Event was created successfully. 30Mins Resolution Warning Name * Object Type Description 30Mins Resolution Warning Request/Incident/Problem 30Mins Resolution Warning
Under Configuration Information tab, Delay Time Repeat Delay time Work Shift Allow Time Resetting 00:30:00 00:00:00 NDV <Put a check mark>
Note: After saving the data, the Condition will be enabled and select the condition based on the requirement Condition Req.Status = Open
1. Under Action information tab, enable Set SLA Violation for Actions on True Macro 2. Click Save and click the Update Actions on True. 3. Select Type as Multiple Notification 4. Click Search and assign the Notify 30Mins and click Search 5. Select the Type as Action and Search and Select the users Add an Activity Log 01Hr Resolution Warning Name * Object Type Description 01Hr Resolution Warning Request/Incident/Problem 01Hr Resolution Warning
Under Configuration Information tab, Delay Time Repeat Delay time Work Shift Allow Time Resetting 01:00:00 00:00:00 NDV <Put a check mark>
Note: After saving the data, the Condition will be enabled and select the condition based on the requirement Condition Req.Status = Open
1. Under Action information tab, Enable Set SLA Violation for Actions on True Macro 2. Click Save and click Update Actions on True 3. Select Type as Multiple Notification 4. Click Search and assign the Notify Level 1 and click Search 5. Select the Type as Action and Search and Select Add an Activity Log 02Hrs Resolution Warning Name * Object Type Description 02Hrs Resolution Warning Request/Incident/Problem 02Hrs Resolution Warning
Under Configuration Information tab, Delay Time Repeat Delay time Work Shift Allow Time Resetting 02:00:00 00:00:00 NDV <Put a check mark>
Note: After saving the data, the Condition will be enabled and select the condition based on the requirement Condition Req.Status = Open
1. Under Action information tab, Enable Set SLA Violation for Actions on True Macro 2. Click Save and click Update Actions on True 3. Select Type as Multiple Notification 4. Click Search and assign the Notify Level 2 and click Search
5. Select the Type as Action and Search and Select Add an Activity Log and Select Set CR SLA Violation=Predicted
04Hrs Resolution Violation Name * Object Type Description 04Hrs Resolution Violation Request/Incident/Problem 02Hrs Resolution Violation
Under Configuration Information tab, Delay Time Repeat Delay time Work Shift Allow Time Resetting 04:00:00 00:00:00 NDV <Put a check mark>
Note: After saving the data, the Condition will be enabled and select the condition based on the requirement Condition Req.Status = Open
6. Under Action information tab, Enable Set SLA Violation for Actions on True Macro 7. Click Save and click Update Actions on True 8. Select Type as Multiple Notification 9. Click Search and assign the Notify Level 3 and click Search 10. Select the Type as Action and Search and Select Add an Activity Log and Select Set SLA Violation=Violated
c) Service Type Creation Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Service Desk Service Types
a) 04Hrs Resolution
Click Save. Under Requests tab, Click on Add Service Type Event
Name: 04Hrs Resolution Initial Event: Click on Event Lookup -> Search for 04Hrs Resolution Initial Delay Time: 00:00:00 Click Save
Name: 30Mins Resolution Warning Event: Click on Event Lookup -> Search for 30Mins resolution Warning Delay Time: 00:30:00 Click Save
Name: 01Hr Resolution Warning Event: Click on Event Lookup -> Search for 01Hr Resolution Warning Delay Time: 01:00:00 Click Save
Name: 02Hrs Resolution Warning Event: Click on Event Lookup -> Search for 02Hrs Resolution Warning Delay Time: 02:00:00 Click Save
Name: 04Hrs Resolution Violation Event: Click on Event Lookup -> Search for 04Hrs Resolution Violation Delay Time: 04:00:00 Click Save Thus the Service Type created with service type events.
d) Incident Area Creation Login to Service Desk Web Client Administration Service Desk Requests/Incidents/Problems
Symbol: Hardware.Desktop.Keyboard Group: NDV Assignee: nd-itdesk Service Type: 08Hrs Resolution For Servers and Switch Incident Area we should select 04Hrs Resolution. Click Auto Assignment tab at the bottom Put a checkmark to Enable the Auto Assignment Click Save
Click Control Panel Configuration Configuration Policy Default Computer Policy Right Click Default Computer Policy and Click Unseal Expand Default Computer Policy DSM Service Desk Integration Default
In the right pane, Double click on Enabled Set the value as True
Click Ok
Click Ok
Double click Logon User Name set the value as System_MA_User Click Ok
Double click Type of Logon to Service Desk set the values as Not Managed
Click OK Right click Default Computer Policy in left pane Select Seal Restart the DSM Service in services.msc
Click Search All the registered assets will be listed. Click Discovered Assets Search
To import the Discovered Assets into Service Desk, Open Command Prompt, Run pdm_discimp -r
Assets are successfully imported into Service Desk. c) Mapping the Assets to contacts
Login to Service Desk using Web Client Click Administration Security and Role Management Contacts Search Open the desired contact
Click Ok
Create Database
To create a new user, Click Security Right click on Logins New Login
Login name: CMS Select SQL Server Authentication Password: p@ssw0rd12 Default Database: CMS Click User Mapping in left side
Click Ok
Click OK
Click Ok
Scroll down the page and accept the license agreement Click Next
Select Use Existing DBMS Select Microsoft SQL Server Click Next
DSN Name: CMS_DNS Database Name: CMS User Name: CMS Password: p@ssw0rd12 Click Next
Put a checkmark to Use the same settings for the Audit Database
Click Next
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Change the port numbers to the values as shown above Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
BOXI Configuration
Click Next
BI Admin Password: p@ssw0rd001 Service Desk Admin Password: p@ssw0rd001 Click Finish
CA Business Intelligence provides the LDAP security plug-in (secLDAP.dll) that allows mapping user accounts and groups from LDAP directory server to
CA Business Intelligence. Integrating CA Business Intelligence with LDAP server allows doing the following. Create new enterprise users for existing LDAP users. Assign LDAP aliases to existing users if their names match in CABI. Steps to configure LDAP authentication 1. Login to Central Management Console as Administrator
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Password: p@ssw0rd001
5. In the Add LDAP host field, add the hostname with the port number as hostname:port_number and click on Add. See Fig 3
Add LDAP Host ndvdc1:389 6. Click on Next 7. Select the LDAP Server Type from the drop down. If you are using Windows Active Directory, select custom. In this example Novell
8. Click Next 9. In the Base LDAP Distinguished Name field enter the Search Base. Ex: o=Myorg,dc=MyDomain See Fig5
Base LDAP Distinguished Name: DC=ndv,DC=com 10. Click on Next 11. In the Distinguished name field enter the LDAP DN of the user who has access to the LDAP server. 12. In the Password field enter the password for the Admin user. See Fig 6 For NDV, CN=dydlanadmin,OU=ADMIN,DC=ndv,DC=com Dydlanadmin is the domain admin as well as the AD server local administrator account. Password for the dydlanadmin user should be entered.
13. LDAP Referral Credentials should be provided only if all the following apply The primary host has been configured to refer to another directory server that handles queries for entries under a specified base. The host being referred to has been configured to not allow anonymous binding. A group from the host being referred to will be mapped to BusinessObjects Enterprise. 14. Click on Next 15. Type of SSL authentication is Basic. Click Next 16. LDAP single sign-on authentication is Basic (No SSO), Click Next 17. In the LDAP aliases configuration screen, it is recommended to leave the default settings. Click Next 18. Click Finish. This will display all the settings under the LDAP tab. See fig 7
19. In the Mapped LDAP Members Group, specify the LDAP group name which has users who need access to CABI. This group should be a group at member level. Enter the CN or the DN of the group and click on Update. See Fig 8 For NDV, CN=ITGROUP, OU=GROUPS Group name ITGROUP is present in OU=GROUPS. DC=ndv, DC=com Syntax: cn=groupname,ou=orgname,dc=domainname
20. Click on Home link to go back to home page of Central Management Console. 21. Select Users. From the list of users, if you have matching LDAP users, select the user. Ex: nd-itcasd 22. In the nd-itcasd user details scroll down and click on New Alias. See Fig 9.
23. In the Account Name enter the userid and click Ok. It will fetch the user information and assign the alias. See Fig 10
24. After assigning the LDAP, you can disable Enterprise authentication. 25. Click on Update
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Option Value http://enc-nd-itcasd:8070 Recycle CA Service Desk services. Login to Service Desk as LDAP user and click on Reports tab. The reports are displayed after getting authenticated by LDAP server.
Reports
Click Start Programs Business Objects XI Release 2 Business Objects Enterprise Designer
Password: p@ssw0rd001
Click Cancel
Click File New Provide the Name of the universe Select the Connection as CA Service Desk Click OK
Right click on left pane Click Class Give the class name Naval Click Ok
Right click on right pane Select Tables Table Browser will be displayed.
Drag and drop the fields from the table (right side) to class (left side).
Click Save
b) Creation of Reports
Click Start Programs Business Objects XI Release 2 Business Objects Enterprise Business Objects Enterprise Java Infoview
Click on your universe name. In this example, we will use NDV universe.
Click Yes
Drag and drop the objects from the middle pane to the Result Objects Pane.
Click on drop down next to start date as shown above and select Prompt
Do the same for the End Date as shown above and select Prompt
It will prompt for Enter Open Date (Start): Enter Open Date (End): Enter Firm:
Selecting the Firm as HP Provide all the values and click Run Query
Click Save as
Provide Name for Title and Description Expand Public Folders -> Select CA Reports Click OK
c) Publishing the Reports in Service Desk Login to Service Desk Web Client as Administrator
Click Administrator tab Security and Role Management Role Management Web Forms
Web Form Name: NDV OPEN TICKETS BASED ON FIRM Type: Report Description: NDV OPEN TICKETS BASED ON FIRM Resource: $BOServerURL?sPath=[Home],[Public+Folders],[CA+Reports],[NDV +OPEN+TICKETS+BASED+ON+FIRM]&sDocName=NDV+OPEN+TICK ETS+BASED+ON+FIRM&sViewer=html Click Save Web Form created successfully.
Open the desired role to which the web form should be added. Click on Report Web Forms tab
Select the Web Forms from Available List to the Assigned List. Click OK. Now the selected report was published to the contact who has the Analyst Role.
Published Reports
The following were the list of reports generated and published for Facility Manager Role: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. Total Volume of Incidents Opened Total Volume of Incidents Closed Total Volume of Incidents Opened & Closed Total Volume of Incidents within specified Date Range No. of Closed Incidents based on Incident Area No. of Closed Incidents based on Firm Total No. of Closed Incidents within specified Date Range No. of Closed Incidents based on Incident Area No. of Closed Incidents based on Firm Total No. of Closed Incidents within specified Date Range
User Operation
Home Page of the user To create a new ticket, click Create a new Incident
Fill in the mandatory fields which are green in color. Click Save to create a ticket.
Tickets under Open Tickets are assigned to Helpdesk. Select Open Tickets to display all the assigned tickets. Open the ticket by clicking the ticket number.
Click New Assignee Search Select the desired engineer Click Group Search Select the group name in which the engineer belongs to. Type the User Description for transferring the ticket. Click Save. Then the ticket will be assigned to engineer.
After resolving the incident, engineer should edit the tickets and needs to change the status of the ticket to Resolved. Engineers dont have rights to close the ticket and he should inform Helpdesk to close the ticket.
Then Helpdesk must open the ticket and change the status to Closed.
Clic k Sho w Rep ort List icon in righ t side as sho wn by indi cati on.
Example 1:
Report is displayed.
To export the report, Click Document -> Save to my Computer as Excel Save
Example 2:
Select Enter Open Date (Start) at the top and click on the calendar icon in the right side middle of the page and select the date. In the same way, select Enter Open Date (End) Click Run Query
Example 3:
Prompt will be appeared. Select the desired Incident Area push it to Right side using Arrow. Click Run Query
Click Start Programs CA Service Desk Web Screen Painter Click File Open Interface or File Type: Analyst Form Group: Default File Name: list_in.htmpl Click Open
Click Source tab at the bottom of the page Search for the below code <BASE TARGET="_top"> <PDM_INCLUDE FILE="std_footer.htmpl"> </BODY> </HTML> <PDM_WSP> Place the below line above the code <meta http-equiv=refresh content=10>
Click File Save Click Publish Click Ok Open Command Prompt Run pdm_webcache
Click Start Programs CA Service Desk Web Screen Painter Click File Open Interface or File Type: HTML Form Group: Default File Name: copyright.html
Modified the copyright information Click File Save Click Publish Click Ok Open Command Prompt Run pdm_webcache
Click Start Programs CA Service Desk Web Screen Painter Click File Open Interface or File Type: Employee Form Group: Default File Name: detail_in.html
Select the Incident Area field as shown above Click on Source tab below
<PDM_MACRO NAME=dtlHier hdr="Incident Area" attr="category" size=30 factory=pcat_in autofill=no evt="onChange=\\\"change_category_func('cr')\\\""> Add make_required=Yes at the end of the code as shown below <PDM_MACRO NAME=dtlHier hdr="Incident Area" attr="category" size=30 factory=pcat_in autofill=no evt="onChange=\\\"change_category_func('cr')\\\"" make_required=yes> Click File Save Click Publish Click Ok Open Command Prompt Run pdm_webcache
d) How to make the Status value from lookup to dropdown in Ticket Detail Page for Analyst view? Click Start Programs CA Service Desk Web Screen Painter
Click File Open Interface or File Type: Analyst Form Group: Default File Name: detail_in.html
Select Status Click Source at the bottom of the page Search for the below code: <PDM_MACRO NAME=dtlDropdown hdr=Status attr="status" factory=crs_cr > Replace it with the below code:
Click File Save Click Publish Click Ok Open Command Prompt Run pdm_webcache
e) How do we redirect users to a web page when they log out from the Service Desk web page? The "LogoutURL" specified in web.cfg file. (D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk\bopcfg\www) is the URL of a web page to be displayed when a user logs out from the Service Desk. By default this variable is commented out and the Service Desk login form is displayed when a user logs out. You can uncomment this variable and specify a URL for the users to be redirected when they log out. NDV LogoutURL: http://ndvwebdr/ndvhome/newhome.aspx Changes to the web.cfg file require Services Desk services to be restarted for them to take effect.
f) How to change the CA Service Desk browser window title bar name?
The name of the CA Service Desk web client browser window is prefixed by default with the name of the product, for example the login screen is titled "CA Service Desk - Login" as per the below screenshot. These instructions advise which variables impact this title name and how to change it. For example, to your "Company Name - Login."
Solution The name in the title bar will be the name of the installed CA Service Desk product. For CA Service Desk r12 the default is "CA Service Desk" For Service Desk r11.2 the default is "Unicenter Service Desk." The key variable that impacts the title bar name is called "$NX_INSTALL_OPTION." It is present in both the NX.env and web.cfg files, but only the NX.env files should be altered. The web.cfg should be left at their defaults. Method
1. Make a backup copy of the file D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk\pdmconf\NX.env_nt.tpl, then edit it with a text editor. 2. Change this variable from: @NX_INSTALL_OPTION=INSTALL_OPT_REPLACE to: @NX_INSTALL_OPTION=Naval Dockyard Service Desk 3. (Optional). Best practice would involve taking a database backup and a file system backup at this point. This is because although the effects of the steps in this document are known and harmless, the following step of running a pdm_configure will pick up all changes that have been made to template files since the last configuration, and sometimes these effects are not anticipated. This comment applies in particular to production systems. 4. Run pdm_configure and test. The changes will be updated into the NX.env file automatically.
The browser title bar should now contain the updated name.
g) How to change CA Service Desk name in the login page? Click Start Programs CA Service Desk Web Screen Painter
Click File Open Interface or File Type: Default Form Group: Default File Name: login.html
<PDM_IF "$env.NX_CMDB" == "STANDALONE"> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">CA CMDB</td> <PDM_ELIF "$env.NX_CMDB" == "NOTSTANDALONE"> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">${ProductName}/CA CMDB</td> <PDM_ELSE> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">${ProductName}</td> </PDM_IF> </TR> Make the changes as per the below code: <TR> <PDM_IF "$env.NX_CMDB" == "STANDALONE"> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">CA CMDB</td> <PDM_ELIF "$env.NX_CMDB" == "NOTSTANDALONE"> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">${ProductName}/CA CMDB</td> <PDM_ELSE> <td nowrap class="login_product_name">TSG Service Desk</td> </PDM_IF> </TR> Click File Save Click Publish Click Ok Open Command Prompt Run pdm_webcache
h) How to change CA Logo in the login page? Make your desired image with the name login_2_sidePxl.png with the resolution of 195*270.
login_2_sidePxl.png
calogoHorizontal.png
Make your desired image with the name calogoHorizontal.png with the resolution of 178*47. Place your image file in D:\ProgramFiles\CA\ServiceDesk\bopcfg\www\wwwroot\img Open Command Prompt, Run pdm_webcache H.
Make your desired image with the name circleca.png with the resolution of 57 *38.
circleca.png Place your image file in D:\ProgramFiles\CA\ServiceDesk\bopcfg\www\wwwroot\img Open Command Prompt, Run pdm_webcache H.
Solution: 1. Create a folder on the Service Desk machine to contain the files used for applying future patches. Note: A suggestion would be to create a folder called 'Tool Box' under the Service Desk root directory. D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk 2. Login to Support online (https://support.ca.com) and, expand Download Center on the left-hand side, click on Published Solutions. 3. Now at the right-hand side, go to "Freeware Utilities / Toolbox" section > Latest Applyptf > Click on the link in the Download column that relates to the 'Latest Applyptf'. For example, RO07324.CAZ is file for APPLYPTF Version 3.0.8. Now download RO07324.CAZ to the directory on the Service Desk machine created in step 1). 4. Also download cazipxp.exe from the same "Freeware Utilities / Toolbox" section and save it under the same 'Tool Box' folder. 5. On the Service Desk machine, open a command prompt and change to the directory created in step 1) that contains the downloaded files from steps 3) and 4). 6. Execute 'cazipxp -u <File from step 3)>.caz. For example, cazipxp -u RO07324.CAZ
Note: You will see a list of files extracted including 'applyptf.exe' in the Tool Box folder which will be used to apply future patches. 7. Place the specific Service Desk patch in the 'patches' directory which resides under the Service Desk root directory. If no 'patches' folder exists, create a new one under the Service Desk folder. Note: All patches downloaded will have a .CAZ extension. These can be extracted using the cazipxp.exe utility.
9. Select the first option 'Apply PTF to local or remote nodes" and then click on Next.
10. Browse to the patch file downloaded in step 7), select it and then click on Next to apply the patch as shown in below screen:
11. After a successful patch application, details will be recorded in the <Server Name>.his file under the Service Desk root directory. Please be sure to check any pre- or post-installation tasks associated with the patch. These will be detailed in the <patchname>.txt file. RO07324.txt Applyptf will also allow you to back out patches, list patches, and install patches to remote machines.
k) Steps for reinstalling the Service Desk Server: 1. Take a backup copy of the following folders: D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk\site\mods
D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk\bopcfg\www\wwwroot\img D:\Program Files\CA\Service Desk\bopcfg\www\htmpl 2. Open Command Prompt and do the following extract on production server pdm_extract wspcol > wspcol.txt pdm_extract wsptbl > wsptbl.txt 3. Take a backup of Database in production Server C:\>pdm_backup f s d s - Stand for backup file name 4. Install the SD Software and apply the latest patches 5. Start Run Type pdm_configure ok 6. Run the configuration without loading the default data 7. Restore the wspcol / wsptab to the test server pdm_load -f wspcol.txt pdm_load -f wsptbl.txt 8. Delete the file D:\Program Files\CA\ServiceDesk\site\mods\wsp_schema.log (may not be present) 9. Start the Unicenter Service Desk services 10. Paste $NX_Root/site/mods to the test system (see step 2) 11. Run the pdm_configure to setup and ensure the environment is correct. 12. Restore the database in test server C :\> pdm_load f s 13. If requires, change the IP address of test server 14. Run pdm_configure 15. Complete the configuration and verify it.