Recently we have received a lot of requests for Enterprise Alert to not only alert on critical situations but to also take a proactive approach to initiate, record and track those situations through ITSM tools such as ServiceNow and BMC Remedy. This post will center around what happens when critical systems fail and tickets
Targeted reliable notifications are the core of any alerting solution. Blasting out emails may be good for quantity, but Enterprise Alert focuses on quality, this means notifying the right people at the right time. We often see monitoring and ticketing solutions creating an incident and then relying on the emailed recipient to not only identify
Apple announced some time ago that the Apple Push Notification (APN) will be deactivated for sending push messages as of March 31, 2021. To continue to ensure the sending of push messages to iOS devices, we have already implemented push shipping via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) in Enterprise Alert 2019. Unfortunately, the change could not
On-call planning is one of the most popular features in Enterprise Alert and is widely used by users, team managers and administrators. However, in our discussions we keep finding that it is not simply done with 5 minutes of planning. Scheduling often depend on external systems. This can range from a simple excel form provided
Integrations of third-party systems with Enterprise Alert, what is possible? In my work with new and existing customers, I keep coming across the assumption that Enterprise Alert is not able to be integrated with certain third-party systems in order to receive and process events and fault messages from this system. Basically, first of all, we
Enterprise Alert® is a leading enterprise-class software for automated, targeted, and traceable alerting and this includes comprehensive capabilities for alert escalation. In the course of my work, be it with new customers, existing customers or even prospects, I repeatedly find that the term ‘escalation’ is often defined very differently and technically implies different implementations and
Empowering the Remote User with Enterprise Alert’s Mobile App 2020 has certainly presented all of us with its fair share of challenges. Small businesses and large organizations alike have been forced to change policies and procedures to adapt to the concept of ‘the remote worker’. As more and more employees are working from home, it
Why tracking of Enterprise Alert user profiles? As an administrator, you want to enable your users and not restrict them wherever possible. But this means you will have to keep track of your users. In the end, you are responsible if some critical alert is not properly escalated. But not just Users interfere with the
Enterprise Alert is the premier solution for reliable, targeted, and accountable Alerting. At Derdack, we have always aimed to provide the best possible security combined with an easy to use User interface. Part of this UI is the Enterprise Alert mobile App which supports secure 2-factor authentication by integrating with ADFS. With the current trend
On October 7th we released a new Enterprise Alert version, version 8.5.1. Included in this release are the following enhancements: Enhanced retrieval of HP OMi Events Updated REST API retrieval of event data SMTP Server updates Enhanced Backend Security Enhanced retrieval of HP OMi Events With HPOMi now Microfocus OBM being that widespread in onsite