Setting up Ticket Profiles

Olivia McCormack
Olivia McCormack
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Hello! This article will walk you through the steps for setting up a Ticket Profile.

What's a Ticket Profile? A Ticket Profile is a pre-saved collection of your preferred settings around how tickets are generated.

What's the difference between Ticket Profiles and Ticket Rules? While Ticket Rules are your way of telling Backup Radar which backups you want to receive tickets about and how often you want to be notified, Ticket Profiles tell Backup Radar how to generate tickets.

Once you've created a Ticket Profile, you'll be able to apply it while setting up Ticket Rules.

Who can use this feature?
• Administrator users.
• Standard users (who have been granted access).
 
What you'll need:
• An integrated PSA, and/or an integrated backup application that sends email notifications. Check out our Integrations section for more details on setting up your integrations.
 
  1. In Backup Radar, navigate to Tickets > Ticket Profiles.
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  2. Click Create.
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  3. Name your Ticket Profile anything you'd like.
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  4. Choose your ticket generation method.
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    a. PSA


    If you would like this rule to notify you by opening tickets in your integrated PSA application, choose PSA and configure the following settings:

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    1. Configure your applicable ticket settings:

    Note: Fields are listed in alphabetical order and not the order in which they appear in Backup Radar. Depending on which PSA you're using, you may not see all of the ticket setting fields listed below.  
    Ticket Setting Description Applicable For
    Assignment Group (Optional) Set your desired assignment group. • ServiceNow
    Caller (Optional) Set your desired caller. • ServiceNow
    Category (Optional) Set your desired category. • ServiceNow
    Closed Ticket Status Set your desired closed ticket status. • All PSAs
    Comments Visibility (Optional) Choose whether or not you would like comments to be visible. If this option is enabled, your clients will receive updates about tickets. • Syncro MSP
    Default Board Select the default board/queue you would like to assign to your tickets. • ConnectWise
    • Datto Autotask
    • Kaseya BMS
    Default Company

    This should be set to either your own company or a catchall company.

    This field is meant to be a fall-back option and is only used in the event that one of your backups is not assigned to a ticketing company in Backup Radar (e.g. if your backup becomes unsynced).

    • All PSAs

    Default Team (Optional)

    Leave this field blank if you granted Backup Radar access to all teams while creating your HaloITSM role permissions. Otherwise, choose the teams you granted Backup Radar access to create tickets for.

    • HaloITSM
    • HaloPSA

    Don't Update Ticket in Status (Optional)

    Tickets with these statuses will be "protected", meaning that Backup Radar will not append tickets found in this state and will instead open a new ticket.

    In addition, if you select "Auto-close" while Setting up Ticket Rules, Backup Radar will not auto-close tickets found in this state.

    This is useful if someone checks all your backup tickets before they're permanently closed.

    You're free to select as many statuses as needed.

    • All PSAs

    Impact (Optional) Set your desired impact. • HaloPSA
    • ServiceNow
    New Issue Type (Optional) Set your desired new issue type. • Datto Autotask
    New Issue SubType (Optional) Set your desired new issue SubType • Datto Autotask
    New Ticket Category (Optional) Set your desired new ticket category. • HaloITSM
    • HaloPSA
    New Ticket Issue Type (Optional) Select your desired new ticket issue type. • Kaseya BMS
    New Ticket Item (Optional) Set your desired new ticket item. • ConnectWise
    New Ticket Status Set your desired new ticket status. • All PSAs
    New Ticket Sub-Issue Type (Optional) Select your desired new ticket sub-issue type. • Kaseya BMS
    New Ticket SubType (Optional) Set your desired new ticket subtype. • ConnectWise
    New Ticket Type (Optional) Set your desired new ticket type. • ConnectWise
    • Datto Autotask
    • HaloITSM
    • HaloPSA
    • Kaseya BMS
    Source (Optional) Set your desired source (where the ticket will show that it came from). • ConnectWise
    • Datto Autotask
    • HaloITSM
    • HaloPSA
    • ServiceNow
    Subcategory (Optional) Set your desired subcategory. • ServiceNow
    Ticket Category Set your desired ticket category. • Datto Autotask
    • Syncro MSP
    Ticket Priority Set your desired priority level for your tickets. • ConnectWise
    • Datto Autotask
    • Kaseya BMS
    • ServiceNow
    Urgency (Optional) Set your desired urgency. • HaloPSA
    • ServiceNow


    2. Catch-all Company: Select the company you would like tickets to be assigned to when the backup's company cannot be found.

    3. Auto-close: If you'd like Backup Radar to automatically close the ticket once a successful result has been received for your backup, select Auto-close.

     

     

    b. Email

    If you would like this rule to notify you by sending email notifications, choose Email and configure the following settings. This is a great option if we don't currently support a native integration with your ticketing system, or as an extra layer on top of your PSA application integration.

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    1. Send to: Enter the email address(es) you would like Backup Radar to send notifications to. To input multiple email addresses, press enter after each one
    2. Send From: Enter the sender that you would like the ticket to come from. To add a new custom email, navigate to Settings > SMTP and click Configure New Email.
    3. Include company name: Select this option to include the company name in the emails.
    4. Include details on errors or warnings: Select this option to include details on errors or warnings in the emails.

     

  5. Under Formatting, click Group Backups by to group your tickets by backup, company, job name, or device name. Backup will be selected by default, whereas the remaining options allow you to reduce the overall number of email notifications sent without losing any information.
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  6. Under Ticket subject, click Create to build a custom template for your rule's subject line, or skip this step if you'd like a Global Ticket Subject to be used (Backup Radar will automatically choose the Global Ticket Subject that matches your "Group Backups by" setting. To learn more about Global Ticket Subjects, see Working with Global Ticket Subjects).
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  7. Under Ticket description (PSAs only), click Create to build a ticket description field for your rule, or skip this step to leave the default description. By default, your description will display as "Ticket automatically created by Backup Radar".
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  8. To save your Ticket Profile, scroll to the bottom right corner and click Save.
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  9. You should see a Ticket profile created successfully confirmation message at the top right of your screen.
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  10. You'll see your new Ticket Profile under Ticket Profiles.
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Any questions? Reach out to our friendly, neighborhood support team by submitting a support ticket.

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