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Remedy, ITSM and SRM Notifications, major spammage
Jim Coryat
2009-04-24 16:44:09 UTC
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We have recently implemented the ITSM applications as well as the
Service Request Management module. What we are seeing is a number of
email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely
unnecessary. In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and
turn some of the notifications off, they still show up. Does anyone
have any experience in this area and could spare a few pointers in
cleaning this up? Right now the users are starting to blindly delete
the BMC Remedy notifications since they are getting spammed with these
continuously.



Thank you for any advice you can provide.



Jim Coryat


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Savant, Donald@DTS
2009-04-24 16:56:18 UTC
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In BMC's SRM class, they let you know that you'll have to "fine tune" the notifications to your environment. For us that meant turning off filters that generate notifications to requesters from the back office applications. Essentially we let the SRM notifications provide all communication with the end user.

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We have recently implemented the ITSM applications as well as the
Service Request Management module. What we are seeing is a number of
email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely
unnecessary. In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and
turn some of the notifications off, they still show up. Does anyone
have any experience in this area and could spare a few pointers in
cleaning this up? Right now the users are starting to blindly delete
the BMC Remedy notifications since they are getting spammed with these
continuously.

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Thank you for any advice you can provide.

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<p class=3DMsoNormal>We have recently implemented the ITSM applications =
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number
of email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely =
unnecessary.&nbsp;
In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and turn some of =
the
notifications off, they still show up.&nbsp; Does anyone have any =
experience in
this area and could spare a few pointers in cleaning this =
up?&nbsp;&nbsp; Right
now the users are starting to blindly delete the BMC Remedy =
notifications since
they are getting spammed with these continuously.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal>Thank you for any advice you can =
provide.<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
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Lammey, Peter A.
2009-04-24 17:01:39 UTC
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NTE:CFG-Notification Events controls Notifications that are sent to Support staff users.
You wouldnt have entries in here for customer (or requester) notifications.

The only other place you could turn those particular notifications off I think would be by disabling the appropriate Notification Message from the SYS:NotificationMessages form or you might have to disable the filters that fire the notification event and send the note to the customers.
The filter that fires the Notification event should be listed in the Description (most likely) for the particular record in SYS:NotificationMessages.


Thanks
Peter Lammey
ESPN IT Client Architecture and Automation
860-766-4761



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We have recently implemented the ITSM applications as well as the Service Request Management module. What we are seeing is a number of email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely unnecessary. In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and turn some of the notifications off, they still show up. Does anyone have any experience in this area and could spare a few pointers in cleaning this up? Right now the users are starting to blindly delete the BMC Remedy notifications since they are getting spammed with these continuously.
Thank you for any advice you can provide.
Jim Coryat
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Matthew Perrault
2009-04-24 17:12:13 UTC
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Jim,
We had the exact same problem, with the SRM notifications going to people.
We disabled the filters on the SRM:WorkInfo form
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_550
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_551
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_552

Unfortunately due to another design flaw with this application, it does not use the NTE sub system.
It does however, pull the message from SYS:Notifcation Messages,
but in the filter, the first set fields action pulls the corresponding notification from SYS:Notification, but it doesn't look at the status of the SYS:Notifcation Message record.

The only thing you can really do, is turn off those filters.

HTH,
Matt P.


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NTE:CFG-Notification Events controls Notifications that are sent to Support staff users.
You wouldnt have entries in here for customer (or requester) notifications.

The only other place you could turn those particular notifications off I think would be by disabling the appropriate Notification Message from the SYS:NotificationMessages form or you might have to disable the filters that fire the notification event and send the note to the customers.
The filter that fires the Notification event should be listed in the Description (most likely) for the particular record in SYS:NotificationMessages.


Thanks
Peter Lammey
ESPN IT Client Architecture and Automation
860-766-4761


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We have recently implemented the ITSM applications as well as the Service Request Management module. What we are seeing is a number of email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely unnecessary. In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and turn some of the notifications off, they still show up. Does anyone have any experience in this area and could spare a few pointers in cleaning this up? Right now the users are starting to blindly delete the BMC Remedy notifications since they are getting spammed with these continuously.
Thank you for any advice you can provide.
Jim Coryat
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Tami Palacky
2009-04-27 16:26:34 UTC
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You can also change the settings on the SRD. You have to take it
offline, then open the Manage Notifications form and deselct options
from there. Other filters you might want to check are :

SRM:REQ:NTRequesterStatusUpdate_ ... (there are several relating to
the request status)



Tami Palacky
Remedy Developer
Dev Technology
Post by Matthew Perrault
Jim,
We had the exact same problem, with the SRM notifications going to people.
We disabled the filters on the SRM:WorkInfo form
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_550
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_551
SRM:SWI:OnCreateFromApp_NotifyEndUser_552
Unfortunately due to another design flaw with this application, it does not use the NTE sub system.
It does however, pull the message from SYS:Notifcation Messages,
but in the filter, the first set fields action pulls the corresponding notification from SYS:Notification, but it doesn't look at the status of the SYS:Notifcation Message record.
The only thing you can really do, is turn off those filters.
HTH,
Matt P.
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Remedy, ITSM and SRM Notifications, major spammage
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NTE:CFG-Notification Events controls Notifications that are sent to Support staff users.
You wouldnt have entries in here for customer (or requester) notifications.
The only other place you could turn those particular notifications off I think would be by disabling the appropriate Notification Message from the SYS:NotificationMessages form or you might have to disable the filters that fire the notification event and send the note to the customers.
The filter that fires the Notification event should be listed in the Description (most likely) for the particular record in SYS:NotificationMessages.
Thanks
Peter Lammey
ESPN IT Client Architecture and Automation
860-766-4761
________________________________
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:44 PM
Subject: Remedy, ITSM and SRM Notifications, major spammage
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We have recently implemented the ITSM applications as well as the Service Request Management module.  What we are seeing is a number of email notifications that are sent to customers, some are completely unnecessary.  In going into the NTE:CFG-Notification Events and try and turn some of the notifications off, they still show up.  Does anyone have any experience in this area and could spare a few pointers in cleaning this up?   Right now the users are starting to blindly delete the BMC Remedy notifications since they are getting spammed with these continuously.
Thank you for any advice you can provide.
Jim Coryat
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