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ManageEngine® Applications Manager Integrating with ServiceDesk Plus | ||
ServiceDesk Plus is a web-based Help Desk and Asset Management software, offered by ManageEngine. With ServiceDesk Plus installed in your network, you can automatically log trouble tickets for specific alarms and maintain a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) that allows you to plot out your IT infrastructure from Applications Manager.
Applications Manager has the ability to automatically log trouble tickets for a specific alarms and to notify the concerned technician when a particular process exceeds the set threshold point. Along with the provision to e-mail, SMS, and other notifications, alarms can also be tracked by automatically logging trouble tickets to ServiceDesk Plus. Applications Manager takes care of the two way synching of Alerts & Tickets status from SDP. For example, you can automatically log a ticket when an alarm is raised, reopen the ticket whenever an alarm is reoccured or close the ticket if the alarm is cleared.
For logging the trouble ticket to ServiceDesk Plus correctly, the following needs to be ensured:
If Credential based configuration is chosen, Incoming Mail Settings should be configured properly in ServiceDesk Plus and Mail Settings of Applications Manager must be configured.
ServiceDesk Plus Settings should be configured in Applications Manager.
Log a Ticket Action should be configured.
An alarm should be associated to the Ticket Action, to log a trouble ticket to ServiceDesk Plus. If REST API based ticketing is chosen, ensure that the ticket action is associated to all severities.
From a CMDB perspective, all the components monitored in Applications Manager are referred to as Configuration Items (CI). With the ServiceDesk Plus integration, Applications Manager takes care of :
Identification of CIs in your IT environment,
Mapping the relationship between the CIs and
Helping you predict the impact of CIs before performing any change.
You can track of all the pending requests, problems and change raised for the CI Type. Once a problem ticket is logged you can also assign a technician for the ticket. Any impact cause by the malfunctioning of these CIs and other CI details can be identified with Relationship Mapping, and specific measures can be adapted to minimize the effect.
ServiceDesk Plus - MSP help-desk software is specifically built for managed service providers. ServiceDesk Plus - MSP helps service providers. With the integrated Applications Manager and ServiceDesk Plus management solution, service providers like can get end-to-end visibility of your client's IT infrastructure.
This section describes the method in which ServiceDesk Plus Settings are to be configured in Applications Manager:
Under Admin Tab, click on Add-On/Product Settings under Applications Manager Server Settings.
An Add-on/Product Settings Table is displayed.
Click on Add action for Service Desk. This takes you to the ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Server Details page.
Configuring ServiceDesk Plus Settings in Applications Manager can be done in two ways: Using REST APIs or Using Credentials.
Using REST APIs
This feature supports Applications Manager with ServiceDesk Plus integration using SDP REST API Keys and automatic closing of tickets. Follow the steps below to configure ServiceDesk Plus Settings in Applications Manager:
Under the Use Rest API tab enter the ServiceDesk Plus Server Details, specify the product that you wish to add - ServiceDesk Plus or ServiceDesk Plus - MSP.
Name of the server and port number where ServiceDesk Plus is running
Enter the REST API key. ( While a ticket action is created, and a technician is assigned from the Log a Ticket form, the technician must have an SDAdmin privilege in SDP. Make sure that the technician whose key you're using has SDAdmin privilege in SDP.)
Select one of the given protocols: http or https(SSL).
By checking the Advanced Settings checkbox you have the option to configure
Enable Ticketing - Ticket Settings
Enable Configuration Item (CI) sync - Configuration Item Settings (only if you have selected ServiceDesk Plus and not ServiceDesk Plus - MSP)
Test if the connection is working and save the settings.
Using Credentials
Under Admin Tab, click on ServiceDesk Settings
Enter the ServiceDesk Plus Server Details
Enter the Name of the server where ServiceDesk Plus is running.
Enter the Port Number of that server.
Enter the Authentication Details of the ServiceDesk Plus Server - Login and Password.
Enter the Email Address configured in ServiceDesk Plus. All the trouble tickets generated would be sent to that Email ID.
Enter the Email Address from which the trouble tickets should be sent.
Test if the connection is working and save the settings.
Note:
The 'Using Credentials' operation will not be supported if the SDP version is above 9101.
CMDB should be enabled only if SDP version is 9 or above.
If you select ServiceDesk Plus - MSP, you will not be able to use the CMDB modules.
You can configure the following settings:
Set Applications Manager to perform one of the following actions when an alarm is raised again for a closed ticket:
To reopen the ticket whenever an alarm is reoccured.
To reopen the ticket within a certain number of days from the closed time. If the ticket is not reopened a new ticket is automatically created. (To reopen the ticket whenever an alarm is reoccured within a certain number of days else open a new ticket.)
To create a new ticket or to open a new ticket whenever an alarm has re-occured.
Set Applications Manager to perform one of the following actions when an alarm is cleared for a ticket:
To close the ticket
To update the notes associated with that ticket.
Add notes for the ticket whenever an annotation is made for the alarm.
Enable on-demand ticket generation using :
Raise a ticket action, so that you can raise a ticket on demand using a ticket action from alarms page. The new on-demand tickets are mapped to the respective configuration items.
Request Form, so that you can raise a ticket on demand using the request form from alarms page. The new on-demand tickets are mapped to the respective configuration items.
Access ticket details from Application Manager. User can access the ticket details from the ticket details link in the alert details page.
Launch Read only ticket. When selected, the ticket details launched from AppManager would be read only.
Update the ticket only if there is a status change in the alarm.
If enabled, action is triggered only when there is a status change in alarm.
Over-write the request template with the fields selected in the action profile.
This option is disabled by default. In Log a ticket action, on selecting the Incident template, the other fields will be hidden. The default values of the Incident template chosen would be used to log the trouble ticket in ServiceDesk Plus.
If enabled, the other fields will become visible, thereby, allowing the user to modify the default fields of the Incident template (https://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/help/adminguide/configurations/helpdesk/request_template.html).
Once the ServiceDesk Plus Settings are be configured, Applications Manager identifies all the monitors (unless you have configured to exclude a monitor(s) or a selected monitor type(s)) and adds them as Configuration Items in ServiceDesk Plus CMDB.
You can change the following Configuration Item Settings by clicking on the Advanced Settings checkbox and then enabling the Enable Configuration Item (CI) sync option.
Delete the CI if the corresponding monitor is deleted
Exclude the monitor(s) of the selected monitor type(s). Users can select the monitors types that they wish to exclude from the list provided to be added as CI(s). Select the monitors that you wish to exclude from the first list and move it to the second list.
Configure custom fields of the monitor as attributes of a configuration item. The new custom field need not get added in Service Desk Plus.
Users can access configuration item and relationship details from Application Manager in the monitor snapshot page.
To View the details of a Configuration Item and view Relationship Maps:
Go to the Monitors tab.
From the Select View list, choose the Bulk Configuration View.
Open the List View which will give you a list of all the monitors.
In the list, click on the 
icon near a monitor to view the CI Details.
Click on the 
icon to view the Relationship Map.
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