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Configuring Help Desk

Help Desk is a convenient way for your customers to reach you when they need your assistance. After you set it up and switch on, the Help Desk becomes accessible to all users who were granted access to control panel, including your resellers, domain owners, and e-mail users. Additionally, you can allow submission of problem reports by e-mail.

Your Help Desk shows all reports posted by your resellers and their customers. Your reseller's Help Desk shows only reports posted by himself or herself and his or her customers. The domain owner's Help Desk shows only reports posted by himself or herself and by e-mail users under his or her domain.

To configure Help Desk and allow your customers post problem reports through the control panel:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the General Settings icon in the Local Help Desk Settings group.
  3. Select the Allow customers to submit tickets check box.
  4. Select the trouble ticket queue, priority and category that will be offered to your customers as the default choice.

    When users post a new ticket, they can specify the order in which they would prefer their problems to be resolved (queue), the priority of their requests (priority), and the category to which the problem is related (category). The queue, priority and category are abstract entities: they have no effect on the system, but they can help you decide what problems to resolve in the first place. There are three predefined queues and priority levels and nine predefined categories including Database, DNS, FTP, General, Hosting, Mail, Mailing Lists, Site Applications, and Tomcat. You can remove these items and add your own.

  5. Click the Enable icon in the Tools group.
  6. Click OK.

If you wish to allow users to submit problem reports by e-mail:

  1. Create a POP3 mailbox with an e-mail address like helpdesk@your-domain.com or anything you like.
  2. Configure the Help Desk to periodically retrieve problem reports from that mailbox and post them to your Help Desk.
  3. Inform your customers of the Help Desk's e-mail address.

To allow users to submit problem reports to Help Desk by e-mail:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Mail Gate Settings icon in the Local Help Desk Settings group.
  3. Specify the following settings:
  4. Click the Enable icon in the Tools group.
  5. Click OK.

To view, add, edit, or remove queues:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Queues icon. The queues will be presented in a list.

To view, add, edit, or remove priorities:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Priorities icon. The priorities will be presented in a list.

To view, add, edit, or remove categories:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Categories icon. The categories will be presented in a list.

To disallow customers to send reports to Help Desk by e-mail:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the Mail Gate Settings icon.
  3. Click the Disable icon in the Tools group.

To disallow use of Help Desk for all your customers and resellers:

  1. Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane.
  2. Click the General Settings icon.
  3. Click the Disable icon in the Tools group.

See also the Using Help Desk for Resolving Your Customers' Issues section.