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1 BMC Remedy Service Desk: Incident Management UserGuideSupportingVersion of BMC Remedy Incident ManagementJanuary 2011 BMC SoftwareYou can access the BMC Software website at From this website, you can obtaininformation about the company, its products, corporate offices, special events, and career States and CanadaAddressBMC SOFTWARE INC2101 CITYWEST BLVDHOUSTON TX 77042-2827 USAT elephone1 713 918 8800or1 800 841 2031 Fax1 713 918 8000 Outside United States and CanadaTelephone+01 713 918 8800 Fax+01 713 918 8000 Copyright 1996, 1998-1999, 2002-2006, 2009, 2010- 2011 BMC Software, , BMC Software, and the BMC Software logo are the exclusive properties of BMC Software.

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7 12 Conventions ..14 Syntax statements ..14 Chapter 1 Introducing BMC Remedy Incident Management17 BMC Remedy ITSM usability enhancements ..17 Where to find features and fields that have moved ..21 What's new in BMC Remedy Incident Management ..23 About the IT Home Page ..23 Configuring the IT Home Page ..26 Consoles overview ..27 Navigating consoles, forms, and modules ..29 Incident request form views ..32 Best Practice view ..32 Using the Customer and Contact fields in Best Practice view ..35 Classic view ..35 user interface standards for field labels ..36 Calbro services ..36 user roles ..37 Support staff roles.

8 38 Manager roles ..38 user role ..39 Mapping permission groups to SMPM roles ..40 Process flow and the lifecycle of an Incident request ..41 Incident Management use cases ..43 Incident resolution first call resolution ..43 Incident resolution with assignment to specialist ..45 Incident request resolution emergency change request ..48 Chapter 2 Working with the Requester console 51 Requester role ..53 Requester console users ..53 Working with Service requests ..54 Defining a Service request ..55 Contents 5 Service request state changes ..56 Performing additional Service request functions ..56 Troubleshooting Service requests with errors.

9 57 Viewing Service request details from an Incident request form ..59 Chapter 3 Working with the Overview console61 Functional areas ..61 Console list table ..64 Selecting status values ..65 Configuring the Overview console to display tasks ..65 Chapter 4 Registering and assigning Incident requests as support staff67 Functional areas of the console ..67 Managing Service targets ..71 Registering Incident requests ..74 Reviewing the status of an Incident request ..75 Viewing Incident request records ..76 Creating an Incident request record using a template ..76 Creating an Incident request record without a template in Classic View.

10 78 Overview of Incident ownership ..82 Adding or modifying a customer profile ..82 First call resolution ..85 Searching for matching records ..85 Accessing BMC Remedy Knowledge Management ..89 Creating a solution database entry from an Incident ..91 Relating Incident requests as duplicates ..93 Assigning Incident requests ..94 Reassigning Incident requests ..95 Chapter 5 Resolving and closing Incident requests as support staff97 Resolving Incident requests ..97 Accepting an Incident request ..99 Receiving notification of assignments ..100 Working with assignments ..101 Working with tasks ..102 Searching for a solution.