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Self-Service for Teams in Enterprise Alert

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, notification channels and alert policies for the new teams as well. His question to us, therefore, was whether he could not also put these management tasks in the hands of the teams.

Introducing 2-way REST capabilities with Enterprise Alert 9

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.

Join the Dark Side with Enterprise Alert

In recent times dark viewing mode for websites has gained a lot of popularity from users worldwide. This does not just apply to your favorites sites, but also for those applications that you rely on day in and day out. Enterprise Alert is no exception. We have heard your requests and are happy to announce that Enterprise Alert 9 now has a dark mode! In the footer of the Web Portal, there is now a Dark toggle. This theme will instantly change your viewing experience between Classic and Dark.

Using Remote Actions to Create ServiceNow Incidents

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 are not being created in ServiceNow due to a break in the workflow.