Enterprise Alert provides the functionality for users to switch their personal alerts on or off. If the alerts are switched off, the user will no longer receive alert notifications. This functionality might be useful during vacations or when there is a temporary alert flood you would like to pause for a while. As an administrator,
Enterprise Alert 2016 comes with a bunch of great new functionalities, e.g. new mobile apps, plug & play integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite and HP Operations Manager i, etc. You can find a complete list of new features in the What’s New document at the link below: https://www.derdack.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/enterprisealert_2016_whats_new.pdf Also, in the following launch video
This is a notification that upcoming software release announcements will only be made in the Derdack User Group on Yammer from now on. If you are a Derdack customer you can request access to the UG here: https://www.yammer.com/derdackusergroup/ Release announcements will include new patches as well as other update releases and of course the availability of
If you receive a text message every minute on your mobile phone telling you, the hard disk is 80% full you might be annoyed and it is likely to miss a critical alert in between. Duplicate Suppression is a powerful tool in Enterprise Alert allowing you to suppress alerts for events coming in over and
When it comes to SMS text messaging Enterprise Alert supports several options: Have a direct connection (or direct connections) to the SMSC (or SMSC’s) of the mobile operator Have a connection to an SMS service provider / SMS aggregator Use one or more GSM modems A combination of the above methods is possible in
Enterprise Alert is a crucial part of the corporate infrastructure. People rely on critical alerts in order to take according action or in order to prevent disasters. Therefore, it is essential that Enterprise Alert is highly available and thus able to send out alerts even if other systems are not working properly anymore. One customer
The Conditions in the Alert Policies of Enterprise Alert are really powerful. You can combine multiple single conditions with “AND” or “OR” links in order to get more complex conditions The following provides some guidance about how to create those kinds of more complex conditions. 1. Create some initial conditions To create new conditions,
When setting up alerting workflows in Enterprise Alert it might happen that you do not receive the alert notifications you expect. Here is a list what you might want to check in this case: Events Are the events received correctly? Is there additional information in the Events view, e.g. about the applied policy? Is the
In most cases the parameters that are transferred from SCOM and the other event sources to Enterprise Alert include all the relevant information to be used in the alert policies. However, in some cases additional or custom parameters are required. The following example shows how to add additional event parameters for SCOM events, but this
Sometimes the Enterprise Alert services shall run under a Windows domain user account instead of under the “LocalSystem” account. This might be the case because of the required database access. It can be quite annoying to set the credentials for all services manually. Therefore, the following PowerShell script will help you to do this very