Dear EriZone customers! Some of your EriZone VMs are still working on CentOS 6, which will reach its End of Life on November 30th, 2020. This means that no new security or bugfix updates will be released after this date. You can check this by running the command: rpm -q centos-release which will tell you…
Read MoreYour web shop is down, a fact that was already reported by your monitoring system. After two minutes the first customer sends in a ticket, asking if you’re aware of the problem. And then another 12 customers after him, resulting in 13 quite useless tickets. Or perhaps you have a planned ERP downtime, and you’ve…
Read MoreAs a Christmas gift, my dear friend and colleague Gabriele presented the EriZone ISMS tool, a specifically customized and configured EriZone to support the documentation of a company’s Information Security Management System based on ISO/IEC 27001. Follow this link to read his post first: https://www.neteye-blog.com/2019/12/use-erizone-to-maintain-and-improve-an-isms-based-on-iso-27001/. In this post I will give more technical details about…
Read MoreToday I’ll present you a hidden gem in EriZone and OTRS: With a few clicks, your favorite browser’s search bar will be able to search for ticket numbers or full text in EriZone. The browsers’ search and address bar fields come with some predefined search engines, but can also be extended with your own searches….
Read MoreTwo screens for monitoring, ticketing, event management, CRM, project management and Outlook, and at least another two screens for all the applications that you need to manage… that often seems to be the minimum for working efficiently. However, you probably don’t want your office to look like a NASA flight control room… To organize the…
Read MoreThese whiteboards with handdrawn swimlanes and lots of apparently randomly placed sticky notes are present nowadays in most developers’ offices. Kanban (Japanese for “signboard”) is however not just a visualization strategy. It originated as a method for production planning, first used at Toyota, and its ideas were adopted for software development 15 years ago. A…
Read MoreA service management system collects an enormous amount of ticketing data, which often needs to be used for statistical evaluation, accounting purposes, monitoring the involvement of 3rd party companies, etc. EriZone provides several different means to extract this data: On the web interface, you can save search results as CSV or Excel files, and then run…
Read MoreTickets, ticket tickets. Tickets tickets ticket (tickets), tickets tickets. Stop! I don’t want to paraphrase Doug Zongker’s celebrated “Chicken” paper and speech (you can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk) that probably had a bigger influence to science than Hugo Ball’s Dadaism poems to culture… Ok, let’s come back to our topic! …Tickets, tickets, tickets! Of course,…
Read More“Alexa, please tell me all the devices assigned to me!” – This may not be a frequent request in the life of a service manager (yet). However, giving your customers visibility of the assets registered in their name is a sign of transparency, trust and good organization. But let’s start from the beginning of the…
Read MoreYou need to print some training material, but after a few pages the color printer stops and just shows some error code… so what happens next? You phone the IT department, telling them who you are and where you are, guessing which printer it is… possibly the color printer on 3rd floor of the North…
Read MoreI often get asked to explain the “best way” to involve partners that provide external (3rd level) support. In IT service management, 3rd level support is commonly defined as the external providers that need to be involved when the first level support and the specialists in 2nd level support cannot provide, or are not able…
Read MoreEriZone is mainly used as an (IT) SM tool to manage incidents, service requests and changes, and to document the assignment and return of devices. However, a ticket system like EriZone can also support other processes – for example, those that need to provide structured documentation. In fact, many standards require reporting risks or other…
Read MoreA service desk system such as EriZone leads users to pursue recommended processes and is thus able to gather a large amount of structured data. In addition to EriZone’s standard dynamic statistics, which can be assembled and configured by the agents themselves on the web interface by combining the data sets provided by the API,…
Read MoreIn a previous blog post, Towards Self-Adaptive Service Desk Systems, I identified three basic service desk configurations for the practical management of service requests and incidents. In this article, you will find an overview and further details about these service desk configurations, including recommendations on how to work effectively with them in EriZone. I also…
Read MoreServicedesk-Systeme sind in vielen IT-Abteilungen von zentraler Bedeutung für viele Arbeitsabläufe, von der Incident- und Serviceanfrage bis zu Autorisierungen und der Verwaltung interner Projekte. Daten aus diesen Systemen werden für die Fakturierung, Zeiterfassung und Kostenschätzung in ERP-Systeme eingepflegt und werden für kurz- und langfristige Statistiken benötigt. Die Tickets mit ihren Metadaten bilden zudem eine strukturierte,…
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