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How to forward alerts to Microsoft Teams

One of our customers came to us asking for a way to easily log tickets created during the night shifts in order to allow team members to be up to date on any nightly occurrences even when the On-Call staff hadn’t been at the office yet. Our initial suggestion was to just send a broadcast message to the team members inboxes but due to concerns that such a setup would just add clutter we investigated alternate ways of providing this functionality.

50% cost-savings by automating alarm dispatching at Aquafin

Aquafin is a Belgian company with over 1,000 employees that was established by the Flemish Region in 1990 for the purpose of expanding, operating and pre-financing the wastewater treatment infrastructure in Flanders. Aquafin collects household wastewater from the municipal sewers and transports it to wastewater treatment plants, where it is treated in accordance with European and Flemish standards.

Introducing a detailed History and Resend capabilities for Emergency Callouts

Emergency callouts are some of the most important notifications a user can receive. With the optional ‘Emergency Callout’ add-on, the capability to reliably alert and notify large numbers of employees can become part of your Enterprise Alert installation. These callouts can tell users about dangerous situations such as inclement weather, fires in the building, or even security issues like active shooter in the building. It is imperative that users receive these notifications.

Meaningful Parameter Names in SNMP Events

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.

Import of Active Directory Distribution Lists

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.