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Mobile alerting with tracking & escalation for BMC Helix

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 Why SIGNL4

This document will provide the reader with information on how to integrate the SIGNL4 with the digital service management platform BMC Helix ITSM (formerly BMC Remedy). After consulting this document, the reader should have a clear understanding of how Helix and SIGNL4 will interact with each other.

 How it Works

BMC Helix ticket information will be sent to the SIGNL4 team via email.

 Integration Capabilities

  • Emails sent upon ticket creation alert SIGNL4 team members
  • Staff can acknowledge and take ownership for critical incidents that occur
  • Communicate within an alert to address a problem
  • Alerts are escalated in case of no response
  • On-call scheduling to alert the right people at the right time

 Scenarios

  • Network Monitoring
  • Database Monitoring
  • Server Monitoring
  • Application Monitoring
  • Ticket Escalation
  • And much more!
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Tickets and Incidents in BMC Helix are sent to the SIGNL4 app

Event categorization, routing and automated delivery

Persistent Notifications by push, text and voice call with Tracking, Escalation and Confirmation to Staff on Duty

HOW TO INTEGRATE
In our example we are going to be assigning a ticket to a user with the SIGNL4 team email address.

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First, you will need to create a SIGNL4 user.  This user’s email address should be the team specific email provided when creating the SIGNL4 account.

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Then assign tickets to this user to generate an email to the team.  On-call duty members will receive Push, SMS and Voice calls alerting them of the ticket creation.  Users can acknowledge and close the alert within SIGNL4 but will need to also do the same in Helix.

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Additionally, you can escalate tickets to the SIGNL4 team by using the Email System Option. When viewing an open ticket, click on Email System and create an ad-hoc message to be sent to the on-duty SIGNL4 members.  This can also be done from the assignee’s inbox. For instance, if the assignee of the ticket needs to alert the SIGNL4 team of the ticket details, they can simply forward the email they received to the team specific email address.

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On-duty team members will be alerted via Push, SMS and Voice calls of the new ticket assignment.

ALERT OPTIMIZATION
SIGNL4 can further increase the visibility of alerts through its Signals and Services section. Augmenting the color and icon of alerts will provide more relevant information at a glance without having to open the alert.

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Change alert color and override title + text 

Override text, colors and titles are triggered by keywords set within the mobile app.

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