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What is IRCM

IRCM, Incident Registration and Configuration Management, is a GNU/GPL webbased tool that supports helpdesk operations in an ICT-environment.

With IRCM, helpdesk agents can register and dispatch service calls from customers. Service calls can be related to agents, customers, projects (contract), devices and incoming or outgoing mail. Service levels can be guarded by call type and status, SLA actions and SLA time open.

The customers' infrastructure can be managed in the configuration management module, providing full tracing through related devices. Device connectivity is easily managed in a 2D layout of connected devices.

IRCM supports multiple customers, helpdesks, Service Level Agreements, mailboxes etc. and it is highly customizable to the actual (customer and helpdesk) environment. This flexible datastorage can be accessed by a built-in report designer to make sure future information needs can be met.

A valuable aspect of IRCM is that you don't have to use the features summed up here. If you want to use the Configuration Management module as an address book and want Incident Registration to be a todo list, you won't be punished with overhead.

Download

IRCM is a powerful, no-nonsense and flexible helpdesk tool. From the beginning IRCM supported the helpdesk operations of our company. This provided and still provides an excellent test environment.

IRCM is published on the company website. Direct link to the download page

Design requirements

  • Minimal restrictions when entering data
  • Balance the first requirement with the quality of stored information
  • Code for a general helpdesk process, store specifics in the database
  • If it doesn't fit it doesn't exist (reject weird change requests from management)
  • Functional and efficient user interface
  • Bells and whistles only on request of experienced users
  • Tuned for use with IE6, Mozilla1.0 and up.

Features

  • Multiple helpdesks (called projects)
  • Multiple Service Level definitions (call types, times and actions)
  • Multiple users and customizable queues.
  • POP3/IMAP based mail (Exchange)
  • Multilevel authentication, authorisation and logging
  • Report designer module
  • 2D-trace based patching
  • Bulk data import and export
  • Client Link Module (real time events, timers and messaging)
  • Callcenter linkable

Running IRCM (server)

  • Pentium II 200MHz 24MB (in test with 4 concurrent users)
  • Linux OS (bash, PERL5+)
  • Apache 1.3+
  • PHP 4.03+ --with IMAP --with MySQL
  • MySQL 3.23+
  • Java: Sun J2SE (Client link module only)

Using IRCM (client)

Connect to IRCM with a W3C (CSS level 2, DOM level 1) compliant browser with JavaScript enabled. Java is required when using the Client Link module.
Tested: Internet Explorer6, Mozilla1.0.7, Konqueror3.4.2