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I've been running/using RT (V3.2.3, just upgraded to V3.4.5) for some
months now for a small group of network/sysadmin folks and I'm not 100%
satisfied with the RT operation that I currently have.<br><br>
<b>Background: </b>My initial setup of queues was based on type of gear,
e.g. Routers, firewalls, servers, etc. All of these queues have a default
priority range of 0 to 29 and escalation period of 7 days from min to
max. I also have a queue for 'projects' that are long-term, back-burner
kinds of things, so the escalation period is very long (6 months). I have
a daily script that does the auto-escalate of priorities.<br><br>
The problem is that the 'one-priority-scheme-fits-mostly-all' approach
isn't working too well... calls that are 'hot' don't escalate as fast as
they should from their initial logging (via email interface), while
others get worked for a while and then need to migrate to a 'back-burner'
lower priority and escalate much more slowly than default.<br><br>
I like the ability to do end-of-month type reports and use the queue name
to simply categorize the type of calls that have been worked, so I'm
reluctant to create a plethora of queues with name based on priority +
equipment category. Ick.<br><br>
I've been toying with creating a custom field that mimics my current
queue names and then have the queues be strictly named according to
priority (urgent, important, routine, low), but then I lose my nice
end-of-month ease of reporting what kind of gear that was worked on.
(Read: Yes, I can craft reports on that custom field but I guess I am
trying to avoid that.)<br><br>
<b>Big Question:</b> For those of you that are successfully using RT to
track technical requests and tasks, are your queues equipment/activity
centric or priority-centric? Can you describe your RT implementation and
how/why it works well for you?<br><br>
Thanks!<br><br>
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<b>Lee Roth<br>
</b><font size=2>Email: bwc_lr1@easy48.com<br>
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