Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread David McKendrick
Kayako. Cerberus is another option. Both have visible code when / if
modifications are needed, but both are also pay2play.

Can't recommend anything beyond those but I've gone through about thirty
different systems over the years.

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:49 -0400, David Lemcoe wrote:
> osTicket is pretty sweet.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Wead 
> wrote:
> I'd recommend Jira:
> 
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
> 
> We use it primarily for software projects and bug tracking,
> but it can easily be configured as a helpdesk application, and
> still be used for other things.  Very configurable, easy to
> setup and maintain and they have reduced pricing for
> non-profits and government institutions.  I'm not sure about
> HR applications, though.
> 
> 
> Adam Wead
> Systems and Digital Collections Librarian
> Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Robert Heller
>  wrote:
> At Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:32:50 +0100 CentOS mailing list
>  wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you
> recommend a ticketing system?
> > We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover
> helpdesk and HR stuff as
> > well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a
> million variations
> > out there.
> 
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread David Lemcoe
osTicket is pretty sweet.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Wead  wrote:

> I'd recommend Jira:
>
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
>
> We use it primarily for software projects and bug tracking, but it can
> easily be configured as a helpdesk application, and still be used for other
> things.  Very configurable, easy to setup and maintain and they have reduced
> pricing for non-profits and government institutions.  I'm not sure about HR
> applications, though.
>
> 
> Adam Wead
> Systems and Digital Collections Librarian
> Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>
>> At Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:32:50 +0100 CentOS mailing list 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
>> system?
>> > We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff
>> as
>> > well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
>> > out there.
>>
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Adam Wead
I'd recommend Jira:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/

We use it primarily for software projects and bug tracking, but it can
easily be configured as a helpdesk application, and still be used for other
things.  Very configurable, easy to setup and maintain and they have reduced
pricing for non-profits and government institutions.  I'm not sure about HR
applications, though.


Adam Wead
Systems and Digital Collections Librarian
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Robert Heller  wrote:

> At Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:32:50 +0100 CentOS mailing list 
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
> system?
> > We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff
> as
> > well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
> > out there.
>
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:32:50 +0100 CentOS mailing list  
wrote:

> 
> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
> well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
> out there.

I use RT for sales and helpdesk (for web hosting clients) type stuff. 
Works reasonably well. Somewhat non-trivial to set up, but work well
once set up.  Warning: it needs all sorts of 'extra' Perl modules,
mostly from RPMForge and somethings there are interesting package
conflicts... Depending on how things are set up, you'll want to
interpose a spam filter.  

http://www.bestpractical.com/?rt=3.4.2

I use bugzilla for software bugs/requests.  RT would work here, but
bugzilla is probably more familar to programmers and is somewhat better
geared to bug reports. 


yum --enablerepo=epel install bugzilla

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Eric Viseur
FWIW, I've been using Indefero for quite a while, might suit some of your
needs.  It's basically a Google Code clone.

2011/7/19 

> Keith Roberts wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
> >> From: Kevin Thorpe 
> >>
> >> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
> >> system?
> >> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff
> >> as well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million
> variations
> >> out there.
> >
> > This is not free, but it is very comprehensive, and will
> > also probably do a lot more than what you need. I have
> > played with the trial demo version last year, and it's got
> > alot of interesting features, including billing. It is a
> > complete solution for web hosting providers, amongst other
> > things.
>
> Missed the beginning of the thread, so I don't know what Keith's talking
> about. The two that I'd recommend that are F/OSS are bugzilla and Mantis.
> Worked with both, both work well.
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>> From: Kevin Thorpe 
>>
>> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
>> system?
>> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff
>> as well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
>> out there.
>
> This is not free, but it is very comprehensive, and will
> also probably do a lot more than what you need. I have
> played with the trial demo version last year, and it's got
> alot of interesting features, including billing. It is a
> complete solution for web hosting providers, amongst other
> things.

Missed the beginning of the thread, so I don't know what Keith's talking
about. The two that I'd recommend that are F/OSS are bugzilla and Mantis.
Worked with both, both work well.

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:36:26AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> If you do use RT, I have a page I put up after putting it on CentOS 5.5.
> Most of it is still probably applicable.

Of course, putting the link to said page might be useful.  (Rough
morning.)

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/rt3.html


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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:39:08PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Am Di, 19.07.2011, 13:32 schrieb Kevin Thorpe:
> > Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
> > system?

> 
> http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/  -> RequestTracker
> http://www.otrs.org/ -> OTRS
> 

If you do use RT, I have a page I put up after putting it on CentOS 5.5.
Most of it is still probably applicable.

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Oliver Schad
On Tuesday 19 July 2011 13:32:50 Kevin Thorpe wrote:
> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
> system? We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR
> stuff as well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million
> variations out there.

OTRS and RT for support and HR. It's a pain to install and configure it 
according to your needs but both work great.

For software I would recommend something like redmine (maybe mantis or trac) 
which supports multiple projects/customers, has repository integration (CVS, 
Subversion, GIT, ...) build in and has a very clean view (otrs and RT tends to 
show too much).

There is no system which fits all requirements for every purpose.

Regards
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list 
> From: Keith Roberts 
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
> 
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list 
>> From: Kevin Thorpe 
>> Subject: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
>>
>> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
>> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
>> well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
>> out there.
>
> This is not free, but it is very comprehensive, and will
> also probably do a lot more than what you need. I have
> played with the trial demo version last year, and it's got
> alot of interesting features, including billing. It is a
> complete solution for web hosting providers, amongst other
> things.

Forgot to post that link:

http://www.whmcs.com/

> Kind Regards,
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> Keith Roberts
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Kevin Thorpe wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list 
> From: Kevin Thorpe 
> Subject: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
> 
> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
> well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
> out there.

This is not free, but it is very comprehensive, and will 
also probably do a lot more than what you need. I have 
played with the trial demo version last year, and it's got 
alot of interesting features, including billing. It is a 
complete solution for web hosting providers, amongst other 
things.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 07/19/2011 07:32 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
> would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

Redmine:
http://www.redmine.org/

You can give it a try by using any of the the Bitnami virtual-machine
images:
http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine

HTH,
Jorge
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Di, 19.07.2011, 13:32 schrieb Kevin Thorpe:
> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing
> system?
> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
> well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
> out there.

Only very few are actually worth installing.

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/  -> RequestTracker
http://www.otrs.org/ -> OTRS

maybe the one or other commercial one.

I only used RT, but OTRS seems to develop nicely, too.

Both required a lot of Perl-Modules that may or may not exist in the
distribution.
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Marius Vaitiekunas
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Kevin Thorpe
 wrote:
> Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
> We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
> well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
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Hi,
We use otrs, it is ITIL compatible. Written in perl, opensource,
possible support.
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[CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system?
We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as
well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations
out there.
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