Enterprise Alert offers the possibility to directly receive SNMP traps and generate alarms from them. The SNMP traps contain a number of parameters that are identified by OIDs. These OIDs are quite cryptic and not very meaningful. So-called MIB files are used to assign meaningful names to the OIDs. The following describes how you can use a script to import such MIB files to display meaningful names instead of OIDs in SNMP events. You can also use these names in alert policies.

During our deployments we come across all kinds of different organizational infrastructures. Importing users from the Active Directory is a key component to populating user information into Enterprise Alert. Enterprise Alert will only import users that are contained in security groups. However, we often see companies having users placed in distribution lists. Enterprise Alert will not import distribution lists.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Enterprise Alert 2019! We have spent more than 1 year of development to enhance Enterprise Alert. Among many smaller features, further performance improvements and revised mobile apps, release 2019 introduces comprehensive multi-tenant management providing for benefits like...

With our on-premise alerting software Enterprise Alert you can deeply integrate into your IT infrastructure and other backend systems as well as communication infrastructure. For some alerting scenarios it might be useful to notify teams independently from your own communications environment or infrastructure. In this case our new app-based alerting service SIGNL4 can be a great asset. SIGNL4 is a plug&play cloud solution.

When we introduced ‘remote actions’ in 2012, i.e. the execution of IT automation tasks from your smartphone, we aimed at empowering the mobile (IT) workforce of the future. We aimed at relieving IT people from being bound to their desks, notebooks and PCs.

ITIL incident management aims to manage the lifecycle of all incidents. And the simple goal is rapid response and resolution, hence IT uptime, as modern IT is the backbone of a rapidly growing number of processes. Enterprise Alert is the perfect tool to accelerate and mobilize critical parts of the incident management process. It has a significant impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of handling time-sensitive and major incidents.

The area of alerting has very much matured over the past 10 years and there is now a number of specialized vendors in both mass notifications and operational alerting. It can be very difficult to make the right choice for a specific business need. However, it is possible to identify these two main segments and to categorize alerting solutions accordingly for a better decision on fitness for purpose.

In a survey conducted at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida, Derdack investigated the state of IT alerting solutions among businesses. The survey is based on 368 participants, randomly selected among IT professionals visiting the expo showfloor. The survey revealed if and if yes, which IT alerting solutions (ITSA / “IT Service Alerting”) businesses use to support their IT operations and to respond faster to major and critical IT incidents.

Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network is a non-profit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation and provides public education on donation in Illinois and northwest Indiana. As one of 58 OPOs that make up the nation’s donation system, Gift of Hope works with 180 hospitals and serves 12 million people in their donation service area.

The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, is happening today. Recent progress in manufacturing automation requires fewer individuals on a shop floor to do manual work with and at machines. However, those people are now required to respond faster and more effectively to keep manufacturing up and running. Fortunately, the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) allows for applying real-time monitoring, workflow automation, predictive analytics, and other means to new verticals and businesses.