Service Desk user roles

The following table describes the responsibilities of the User Interaction Management user roles.

User Interaction Management user roles
Role Responsibilities
User
  • Report all IT-related requests to the service desk or use the self-service web pages.
  • Validate solutions and answers provided by the IT department to a registered service request.
Service Desk Agent
  • Register interactions based on contact with users.
  • Solve and close interactions.
  • Provide status updates to users on request.
  • Register incidents based on user interactions and assign them to the correct support groups.
  • Register requests for change, based on user interactions.
  • Register service requests, based on user interactions.
  • Register problems, based on user interactions.

  • Validate solutions provided by support groups.
  • Report and verify solutions to users.
  • Monitor Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets of all interactions.
  • Communicate about service outages to all users.
Service Desk Manager
  • Appoint people to the required roles.
  • Manage resources assigned to the service desk.
  • Manage service desk activities.
  • Attend CAB meetings.
  • Report any issue that could significantly impact the business to senior managers.
  • Take overall responsibility for incident and service request handling on the service desk.
  • Monitor and report on service desk performance.
  • Make improvements to the service desk.