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October 2007 MAR

October 26th, 2007


1.       Completed Magic to BMC Service Desk Upgrade Project.  I also installed Work Orders and Surveys.  Below is the detail for Surveys.  Work Orders followed a similar type of set up process.
  • I moved people from Taj's list to ITS-PARTNER group.
  • The incident number variable did not exist on any survey form.  This is a bug caused by the upgrade.  The incident number was recreated on each Work Order and Survey Form with the working variable.
  • I added the following Fields and Tabs to the Production BMC Service Desk.
  • ITS Client Form:
  • Field:Survey Name [Must be filled in to be sent a survey]
  • Field: Do Not Survey
  • Field:Survey Counter
  • Field:Last Surveyed
  • Fields:No of Surveys
  • Tab: Activated Survey
  • ITS Incident Form:
  • TAB: Activated Survey
  • TAB: Answered Survey
  • Created Forms:
  • ITS Activated Survey
  • ITS Answered Survey
  • Modified Navigation Bar
  • ITS ADMIN Select accessed by ITS Parter and NOC
  • Add Business Rules:
  • ITS Notify Client When Activated Survey Created on Demand
  • ITS Notify Client When Activated Survey Created for Incident
  • ITS Notify Staff On Low Survey Score For Incident
  • ITS Notify Staff On Low Survey Score for On Demand Survey
  • Permissions:
  • I gave ITS-Partner permissions to access Surveys and create them.  Deletion is selective.
  • Need to add as requested:
  • Survey Settings that must be done by Julie as Admin:  vunetid that can access surveys, ENABLE surveys, survey hierarchy
  • Surveys may be added by groups, staff, and category also.
  • Surveys are sent upon closing the incident the first time. 
  • Please test the https://magictest/magic survey example and test before designing a survey on the production.  I would be happy to go over how to design and set up a survey.
  • The vunetid that has access to the Surveys has limitations.
2.       Attended IP Diamond DNS training.  I learned about the database setup and tables and created a MYSQL and ORACLE comparison matrix for the IP Diamond Application.  Oracle was clearly the best choice for data protection and Application up time.
3.       I updated the Application Hosting internal web site with:
  • a.       NEED TO KNOW additions
  • b.      System Provision document changes
  • c.       NAS, Storage and VM Requests Links.  Also added business rules to Service Desk to receive these requests and create incidents.
  • d.      Changes to On-Call tables
4.       Updated some auto-maintain-list oracle pl/sql queries.
5.       Gathered database stats for count and storage of all of our databases to include Oracle, MSSQL, MYSQL.

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