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Service Desk Agent

The Service Desk Agent user role has the following responsibilities:

  • Open interactions based on contact with the user
  • Match user interaction to incidents, problems, known errors, or knowledge documents
  • Solve and close interactions
  • Provide status updates to users on request
  • Register incidents based on user interactions and assign them to the correct support group
  • Register requests for change, based on user interactions
  • Register service requests, based on a user interactions
  • Validate solutions provided by support groups
  • Report and verify solution to users
  • Monitor the Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets of all registered incidents and escalate the incidents if required
  • Communicate service outages to all users

To execute this role, the following tasks are available to the Service Desk Agent:

Note For an overview of how these tasks fit in the incident management workflow, see Service Desk workflows and user tasks

ITIL Workflows User Tasks
Self-Service user interactions (SO0.1)
  • None
User interaction handling (SO0.2)
Interaction closure (SO0.4)