Hello,
I installed Mantis in september 2003 in our bank.
The initial goal was to use it as an "IT-helpdesk" tool.
It is a real success. We're approaching the 100.000° incident.

Now, Mantis has become more than an helpdesk-IT tool.

All Back-Office use or want to use mantis to follow their activity. This has lead me to implement many functionnalities around and inside mantis.

Last year, our leaders decided to outsource the IT-production. The outsourcer works with ITIL methodology. I began to implement ITIL processes in our very-cutomized Mantis.

But I now reach the limit of this customization,

• it's based on Mantis 0.18 with some components of 0.19 (bug history)
• Even if I almost respect Mantis coding guidelines, I did not have all the good practices for such a customization (Added more than 15 functionnalities : creating bug / adding a bugnote from an external application, time management, user's group, release management, automatic escalation, user's absences, target date, and many other external applications based on a mantis bug)

I have many global ideas on the way to implement our ITIL interpretation in Mantis.
examples :

• transforming the field "reproducibility" as "Nature" that can be : "incident, service request, problem, request for change".
• combinating status & nature to determine, for example, that a "problem" that have been analysed is a "known error" in ITIL terminology
• implement a data strucure that will contains "Service Level Agreement", and using an automatic escalation to send alerts when an issue is about to break the SLA
• etc... I'm at the very begining of this analyze of Mantis' ITILization for our Bank

My questions :

• Are there others persons/companies that are interested in such an ITIL layer over Mantis ?
• What is the position of the author on that subject? is there something planned ?

Sorry if my approach is not the good one, my experience in developing opensource project is limited to this private customization of Mantis. By lack of time, I haven't shared my sources (yet).

Hi,

I'm also very much interested in the Mantis feat ITIL topic. At the moment I'm leading a project to start using Mantis as the incident and time tracking utility. Pilot will be 20 members team but goal is to roll it out to the division (100+ people) and the possibily the whole company (500+ employeees).

We have defined up front the requirements for such a tool, Mantis is almost 50% compliant with what we need. Topics like SLA for instance are very important to us.

Maybe it is best to create a number of child feature request as to work towards compliancy.

And maybe one of the first to start on is SLA's as this is used in many many companies and would be a big step up.

Let me know what you think.

Hi,

our company have been using mantis for many years as well. We have done some modifications to at least have Priority calculated from Impact and Urgency, but I would be very interested in a better, more advanced solution implementing more of the ITIL methodology.

Please let me know.

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Hello.

I'm also very much interested in the Mantis feat ITIL topic.

Aeroflot Russian Airlines

We are also using ITIL here so a ITIL compliant mantis would be cool.

Anyway I think somebody should split that report here, E-Mail interfacting does not directly relate to ITIL, or am I wrong?

Concerning Reporting, we are just creating a plugin "ServiceLevel" (see 0010211)

Hi, we are after SLA functionality is there any plan to integrate this kind of support into Mantis actual?

Cheers.

@jonathh: we're trying to split features out into separate plugins so it is unlikely you'll see new features added to the core of MantisBT. I guess it's possible that we'll add new features and bundle them by default in the plugins/ directory but there will also be a lot of plugins available at mantisforge.org or elsewhere.

@dhx: Good idea by the way to bundle plugins that reached some status of maturity.

Hello world,

I have updated the page about Mantis ITIL v3 compliance :
http://www.mantisbt.org/wiki/doku.php/mantisbt:issue:7721 [^]

Perhaps could you append your ITIL v3 mantis configurations, experiences, documentations, and source code ;) ?

Thanks for the best BT MANTIS !

Hello,

We are going to use Mantis for our project as a Defect tracking tool. I just wanted to know whether Mantis supports this particular requirement:

1. I know we can have multiple projects inside one Mantis server. Can we have different SLAs for the different projects. What I mean is can the administrator define only one SLA for project XX(say a HIGH priority incident needs to be solved in 24 hours) and another SLA for project YY (say a HIGH priority incident needs to be solved in 12 hours).
   Regards

There is no such thing as an SLA built into MantisBT. It would be up to you to define your processes and methods to enforce them. That being said, I vaguely recall some plugins out there that may offer this functionality.

I have created a plugin to preset the duedate (to be found in this bugtracker).
This can be done by project/category.
Perhaps this meets your requirements.

Hi Cas,

Is it possible to send or attach this plugin for SLA?

Thanks advance

Regards

See 0012522

Hi Dregad,

Thanks!!

Regards,

Hello everybody

Are there new information available about this topic?