
• If the registered server for the ticketing server is deleted, the system changes the state of
each ticketed issue to Assigned or to New if the ticketed issue does not have an assignee
specified.
Integrations with ticketing servers
The integration of a ticketing server allows the system to force the creation of tickets associated
with issues that were created in product extensions. The following ticketing servers are
supported:
• Hewlett-Packard Openview Service Desk versions 4.5 and 5.1
• BMC Remedy Action Request System versions 6.3 and 7.0
The person who performs this integration should be familiar with the ticketing server and its
fields and forms. Integrating a ticketing server consists of these basic steps:
1 Install the extension for the ticketing server.
NOTE: The system running the ticketing extension must be able to resolve the address of
the Service Desk system. This might involve adding the IP address of the Service Desk
system to the hosts file on the system running the ticketing extension, or setting up a
domain trust between the two systems. For more details, see the section in this guide
about configuring DNS for a Service Desk 4.5 integration.
2 Add a registered server for the ticketing server. Only one registered ticketing server can
exist at a time.
3 Configure the field mappings between issues and tickets.
Considerations when deleting a registered ticketing server
There might be times when you want to delete the registered server for your ticketing server.
For example, if you upgrade your ticketing server. When the registered server is deleted, the
system changes the state of each ticketed issue to Assigned or to New if the ticketed issue does
not have an assignee specified. The system only performs this action when the server task,
which synchronizes ticketed issues, runs. This is why it is important to disable that server task
if you are upgrading the ticketing server. For more details, see the section in this guide about
upgrading registered ticketing servers.
When the registered ticketing server is deleted, the ticket ID that associated the ticket to the
ticketed issue remains with that ticketed issue. This allows the ticket to be reopened if the
issue-to-ticket association is broken. For example, if the server task, which synchronizes ticketed
issues, runs before the upgraded server is registered. For more details, see the sections in this
guide about upgrading a ticketing server and about how tickets are reopened.
Required fields for mapping
To determine which ticket fields must be mapped, review the fields on the desired ticket form
that are required for a ticket to be created within the ticketing server. For information about
which fields are required for your ticket form, see the documentation for your ticketing server.
For the system to know when to close ticketed issues, the field with the ticket's state must be
mapped. If you want ticket comments added to ticketed issues, the ticket's comment field must
be mapped in addition to the ticket's state field.
Managing Issues and Tickets
Integrations with ticketing servers
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