[rt-users] Assigning priority on incoming tickets?

[Chris Scott]

Hi Shane,

Yep, same situation here.

At first, I wanted people to be able to send email to a separate address
that would enter the ticket in RT and set the priority higher than default.
This is pretty easy to do if you don't mind modifying rt-mailgate to accept
another command line argument and then set the priority if that argument is
passed.  Then, in your mailer aliases you can create an alias that calls
rt-mailgate w/the new command line argument.

Then, I wanted to have an email sent to our pager system to alert us.  This
can probably be done using your mailer and having it forward a copy of the
message to your pager system--I didn't choose this route.  What I ended up
doing was modifying our support request web form to add a dropdown for
importance--defaulting to normal.  The script that processes the form sends
a message to my paging system if the importance is high or critical and also
send an email to the RT address I mentioned above.

To make all this work, we notified our customers that in order for a ticket
to be created with a high or critical priority they had to use the Web
interface.  If they just send an email, it will be normal priority.  The
only drawback is if our site is down but that in itself will trigger all
kinds of bells, buzzers and pages.

Hope this helps,
Chris Scott
Host Orlando, Inc.
http://www.hostorlando.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com
[mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com]On Behalf Of Shane Landrum
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:05 AM
To: rt-users at fsck.com
Subject: [rt-users] Assigning priority on incoming tickets?


Hi folks.

Here, we've historically had a paging system that sends pages to
sysadmins if-and-only-if someone reports a problem as
"critical". That paging was tied to our legacy system, which
allowed problem-reporters to rank tickets by priority.

With RT, there's no way for problem reporters to assign priority
to their own tickets. I could have a separate queue for critical
problems, where only critical problems send mail to our pager
address, but that seems less than ideal. I just don't want
our sysadmins to be awakened at 3am by a problem less than
"our systems are [literally, figuratively] on fire."

Anyone here have a similar situation? How did you deal with it?

srl
--
Shane Landrum  (srl AT boston DOT com)  Software Engineer, boston.com

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