Telecommuting, doing remote work from home, even on a part time basis, is increasing in the US. The biggest increases in this over the last few years is in the college educated, white collar workers. And around 37% of workers say they have telecommuted during their career. So, when doing remote work in the IT
In this article, I will explain how you can add automated and reliable notifications with tracking and escalations to scheduled people on-duty when new incidents are logged in your HPE Service Manager 9.4x (HPSM). Use Case Let’s take the following DevOps use case which we want to implement with Enterprise Alert® (EA) in addition to
It’s a question that comes up almost every time we do a trade show, “Do you guys offer RBAC?” Why yes, yes we do. We understand the importance of the need to control who can do what in critical applications, and we do consider Enterprise Alert a critical application in your infrastructure. So Role Based
I recently did some web research on the confusion of events, alerts, incidents and notifications – terms that play an important role in understanding the value of what IT service alerting delivers. I have found an abundance of interpretations and definitions. You will also find different naming conventions with each vendor of tools for monitoring and
Database maintenance is integral to the speed of an application. An application’s speed is driven by many factors, one of which is database performance. In an application such as Enterprise Alert that is I/O intensive, database speed is a critical factor in its performance. As such, a solid database maintenance plan is needed to ensure
As an on-call engineer it is convenient to get reminders before your on-call duty starts. You can configure this easily with Enterprise Alert. You can configure on-call reminders directly in the app under Settings -> On-Call Reminders. This will send a reminder every time a user’s duty starts. If you do not use the app
With SCOM alerts, it’s sometimes helpful to be able to view SCOM Knowledge Base (KB) articles in order to help resolve the issue detected by SCOM. But finding those articles quickly can sometimes be a pain. In order to help with this, here’s a script that will allow you to receive the KB articles for
One of the core functions of Enterprise Alert is providing for the management of on-call schedules for teams. With Enterprise Alert managing these schedules, it allows for near instantaneous look-up of a team’s on-call schedule. This in turn allows for automated escalation to follow on personnel and quick and easy re-iteration of notification cycles. It
Maintenance Windows are used in Enterprise Alert to designate times that certain alert policies aren’t triggered during system maintenance. This means muting alert notifications that would otherwise be triggered by those policies. The choices you have are either single policies or all policies with a certain tag. So, if you’ve grouped policies by a tag
The scripting add-on for Enterprise Alert is a very powerful tool. For example you can achieve the following by using custom scripts: Custom alerting workflows Alert enrichment Connect custom event sources Trigger IT tasks Execute PowerShell scripts And much more …. For more complex scripts you might want to reuse code. This is especially convenient