EV Observe - Configure Ticketing Systems - Overview

Last modified on 2023/11/23 14:45

Ticketing integration enables you to create and synchronize tickets in both third-party products and EV Observe.

  • A ticket can be created in the third-party product when a monitoring alert is acknowledged for a configuration item (CI) (host/service) in EV Observe.
  • You can view information on the third-party product's ticket in the EV Observe CI Detail form.

Notes

  • Integration is performed using the REST API of the third-party product.
  • You must define the mapping between fields in EV Observe and those in the third-party product.
    • Each EV Observe company or site must be mapped with a company defined in the third-party product.
    • You may also be required to perform a specific configuration in the third-party product, for example by creating a dedicated user for the REST API.   Open url.png See Ticketing integration for each third-party product
  • Ticketing integration can be implemented for monitoring a single company or for monitoring the IT assets of multiple companies.
  • A ticket can be opened in the ticketing tool for any CI (host/service) with an alert, without an open ticket, and that is not yet acknowledged.
  • You cannot acknowledge an alert again or open a ticket as long as the status of the CI is not OK, and the ticket is not closed.

Caution

  • Life cycles in the third-party product and EV Observe are not synchronous.
    • When a ticket is closed in the third-party product, this will not automatically change the status of the control to OK in EV Observe.
    • When the alert disappears in EV Observe, this will not automatically close the ticket in the third-party product.
    • An action can be performed in the component associated with the control in EV Observe while its ticket is kept under observation in the third-party product to ensure the issue is correctly resolved.

Operating principle

The diagram below shows the interaction between EV Observe and the third-party product. You can see the life cycle and status changes for a monitoring control in EV Observe as well as the life cycle of an incident in the third-party product.

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  • (Prerequisite) Configuration of the integration in the third-party tool
  • (1) The status of a CI changes to critical or warning. An alert is triggered in EV Observe
    • The alert is acknowledged in EV Observe
    • A ticket is generated in the third-party tool. It contains information on the monitoring event as well as information on the mapping between EV Observe and the third-party product.
    • The ticket's information appears in EV Observe
  • (2) The ticket is processed in the third-party product to remove the alert in EV Observe
  • (3) The ticket is closed and the status of the CI in EV Observe changes to OK

Procedure: How to create a ticket via a monitoring alert

Prerequisites: Configuration of the integration based on the third-party tool used

     Open url.png See Ticketing integration for each third-party product

Step 1: Create a ticket

1. Select Monitoring > Monitoring in the menu.

2. Open the CI Detail form (host/service) where the monitoring alert was triggered.

3. Click the critical indicator Status icon - Critical.png or warning indicator Status icon - Warning.png for the relevant CI. Next, click Create a ticket and acknowledge.

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The window for creating a ticket will appear.

5. Specify the information on the ticket.

Note: The fields displayed will depend on the integration.

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6. Click Apply.

  • The ticket will be created in the third-party tool.
  • The CI Detail form will retrieve the information on the ticket.

Step 2: Monitor the ticket in EV Observe

1. Move the cursor over the Open folder icon.png icon next to the relevant CI.

Information on the ticket will appear in a popup window.

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2. Click View ticket information icon.png in the title bar of the popup window.

The ticket will open in Service Manager.

          Consult ticket in Service Manager.png
 

Step 3: Solve the alert

1. Perform the actions required to remove the alert for the CI.

2. Close the ticket in the third-party tool.

  • The closing will display in EV Observe.
  • The history of closed tickets will be kept.

List of ticketing integrations

At the time of writing, EV Observe supports the following ticketing systems.

  • Akuiteo
  • Artis. Versions 2.5.9, 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0
  • Atheneo. Version 14.1.8.1
  • Freshservice
  • GLPI. Versions 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
  • Isilog IWS Air Design
  • iTop. Web services version 1.3
  • ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus MSP
  • Pytheas. Version 4.3.1
  • Sage X3
  • EV Service Manager
  • EV Observe Customer Care. Versions 8.10_3.3 or later
  • ServiceNow. Utah version
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