Chapter 5. Support Administration

You learn about the following in this chapter:

  • How to identify your customers

  • Using trouble tickets to manage reported problems

  • The three-tiered support model

  • Matching support methods to individual needs

  • Developing and executing on-call procedures

  • How to plan effective escalation procedures

  • Techniques for communicating support procedures to users

  • How to find and use support tools

  • Advertising support forums to your users

Every computing service requires some kind of infrastructure to support its users. Most users at one time or another experience a problem that they need to communicate to their service provider, and they expect to see that problem resolved within a reasonable amount of time. As a system administrator, ...

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