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
A few days ago I had an insightful conversation with one of our customers who inspired me to write this blog. He, like so many other customers, was facing the problem that his Enterprise Alert management overhead was increasing with each new team he added, as he had been managing resources such as event sources,
The REST API in Enterprise Alert 9 has now been extended with a 2-way functionality. This allows to call webhooks or REST endpoints from third party systems on alarm status changes (acknowledge, close). Thus, in Enterprise Alert 9, it becomes child’s play to establish a 2-way integration with almost any REST enabled third party system.
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
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
Derdack has launched its new cloud solution. SIGNL4 is a mobile alert notification app to reliably inform teams about alerts and incidents. It automatically and persistently routes and delivers critical information to the right people at the right time. This ensures transparency on incident ownership and response. SIGNL4 complements Enterprise Alert by targeting small and medium-sized business with less
Mike is a family man He loves his little kids and tries to spend as much time with them as his job allows. Mike is part of an IT operations team at a large financial IT service provider. One of his responsibilities is being on-call. He shares with 3 other team members so, effectively he has