Service Desk console and general usage

Service Desk provides not only a new interface for users to monitor and manage attended sessions but also an opportunity to enhance user’s workflow. You don’t need to wait for a new 9-digit code generated from the end users' side each time when starting an attended remote connection.

Requirements

  • Splashtop Enterprise with technician licenses 

  • Business app version 3.4.8.4 or newer

  • For a user account to be able to use the feature, he/she must have the attended access feature available to him/her, being a technician role for example.

How to enter Service Desk console:

You can enter Service Desk console from either the web console(my.splashtop.com/my.splashtop.eu) or the business app.

From web console:
Logging the web console(my.splashtop.com/my.splashtop.eu), you can find Service Desk as a separate tab.

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From Business app:
You can click the Service Desk Console button or go to the Service Desk tab

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On Service Desk console:

When you enter Service Desk, you will find Home and Channel on the left

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Home

On Home, you can find all the attended sessions that are assigned to you. 


Channel

In Service Desk, “Channel” is similar to the concept of group/grouping in users or computers.


Session

You can monitor and manage the support sessions in Session.

To create a new session
you can create new support sessions in the channel by clicking “New Session“ and share the link with the end user.

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Choose between sharing an invitation link or 6 digit PIN code.  

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With the link, the end user can download the app and launch it.

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Once the end user launches the support app, the status of the session will change from “Waiting“ to “Active“

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When the session is active, technician can request permission to connect by clicking “Start Remote Session“

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After the technician requests for permission, the end user would see the prompt as follows to reject or grant permission.

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The following will show on the end user’s side if he/she grants the permission.

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If the user grants the permission, the “Start Remote Session“ icon will change frommceclip16_en-us.png

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Now, the technician can start to connect by clicking “Start Remote Session.“

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Actions

In addition to “Start Remote Session“, you can also take the following actions.
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  • Assign Technician: assign or re-assign a technician to the support session. 
  • Transfer:  transfer the session to another assignee or another channel

    • To transfer to another assignee, permission for Release should be granted
    • To transfer to another channel, access to another channel should be granted
  • Invite Other Technicians: Invite up to 2 other technicians to the support session (max total 3 techs)
  • Copy Session Link

  • Show PIN Code

  • Release: release the session from the assigned technician
  • Close: close the session
  • Delete: delete the session from the channel

 

 

Session Status

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  • Waiting: The status will be “Waiting“ for the user to download and run the Service Desk support app from the unique link right after a new session link has been generated.

  • Active: The Service Desk support app has been started on the end user's computer; this session has a technician assigned, and the technician is ready to request permission to connect. 

  • In queue: The session has been released and it's waiting for a technician to take the session. 

  • Expired: The session exceeded the Session Expiration time that was preset from the Channel settings.  

  • Closed: The technician has manually closed the session. No further connection is possible. To connect again, generating a new session is required. 

 

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