Usuário e sua senha esquecida, expirada e conta bloqueada

Usuário e sua senha esquecida, expirada e conta bloqueada

Em um ambiente onde temos mais de três mil usuários é comum ter problemas com senhas. O mais comum é o usuário esquecer a senha ou digitar varias vezes a senha errada e consequentemente a conta é bloqueada. E dependendo da politica de empresa o usuário precisa cadastrar uma nova senha de tempo em tempo e como sempre deixa sempre para ultima hora, acaba não fazendo, consequentemente perde acesso ao sistema.

E a primeira coisa que o usuário faz é ligar para o suporte. E a equipe de atendimento tem uma fila para atender e dependendo do SLA ele pode ficar de 2 a 4 horas esperando a resolução do chamado. Enquanto isso o usuário fica sem conseguir trabalhar por justamente não ter acesso ao sistema por que foi displicente.

Em um projeto recente analisando o ambiente a média de solicitações para redefinir senha e desbloquear conta é de 300 solicitações por mês. E com isso sobrecarrega a equipe com esse tipo de atendimento que poderia ser evitado se o usuário tivesse seguido a politica de empresa. Foi identificado também que alguns usuários agindo de má de fé solicitavam para redefinir a senha de gerentes, ficar tentando logar com o usuário de outro a fim de bloquear a conta e “sacanear” o colega. Tudo isso gerando demanda para a equipe de atendimento  e todos perdem com isso.

Para resolver essa questão foi utilizado o software ADSelfservice da ManageEngine. O ADS é uma solução 100% WEB que vai possibilitar que o próprio usuário consiga redefinir sua senha e:

• Desbloquear sua conta
• Atualizar suas informações de contato direto no AD (Active Diretory)
• Troca de senha segura usando a politica de senha
• Redefinir senha através de agendamento
• Relatórios para auditoria
  • Senhas próximas de expirar
  • Usuários que alteraram senha recentemente
  • Usuários com a conta bloqueada
  • Entre outros
  • Notificações diversas

Com o ADSelfService o usuário vai ter autonomia para redefinir sua senha, alterar a senha em caso de esquecimento, desbloquear a conta e atualizar suas próprias informações. Isso vai diminuir para zero os atendimentos para redefinir senha, deixando a equipe de TI livre para resolver outras questões mais importantes.

O ADSelfService é um produto da família, existe mais dois deles para ajudar na administração do AD, que é ADAudit e ADManager para mais informações só clicar nos respectivos links. Vou comentar dessas outras duas soluções em uma outra oportunidade.

Demo online: http://demo.adselfserviceplus.com/

Funcionalidades: http://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/features.html

Manage Engine Experiencia e conhecimento

ServiceDesk Plus 7.6 – Atualização

ServiceDesk Plus 7.6 – Atualização

Essa atualização do SDP esta sendo uma das mais esperadas (pelo menos por mim). Muita coisa nova e muitas correções também.

O principal é a parte de permissão, agora você consegue granular o que o técnico consegue editar na solicitação. Muitos cliente estavam querendo esse tipo de configuração. Tendo assim um nível controle maior sobre os itens das solicitações e de segurança.

Arquivamento de dados (Data Archiving) – essa funcionalidade vai ajudar a aumentar o desempenho do SDP. A pergunta é: “Como ele vai fazer isso?” – Simples, arquivando as solicitações antigas. Você define o tempo que as informações ficaram retidas na base de dados e o arquivamento vai ser automático conforme o tempo definido. Com isso você alivia o bando de dados e o acesso as informações ficam mais rápido. Com alguns cliques você consegue acessar as informações arquivadas, é possível também criar filtros de exceção.  

Compatibilidade com celulares. È possível acessar o SDP através do celular com características especificas.

Analisador de E-mail (E-mail Command) – com essa feature você consegue abrir a solicitação por e-mail e categorizá-la. Antigamente isso não era possível e tínhamos que criar complexas regras de negocio para fazer essa classificação.  

Temos agora templates para resposta de solicitações e base de conhecimento, esta show de bola. Entre muitas outras melhorias e correções.

ServiceDesk Plus 7.6 – ReadMe 

Fine Grained Authorization

Configure Roles such that a technician is allowed to perform specific tasks in requests and purchase modules. Some of the operations available in the initial cut are,

Data Archiving

With Data Archiving one can archive old requests based on certain criteria like created date, completed date and so on.

• Option to schedule data archiving.
• Provision to specify exceptions while archiving.
• Support to view archived data

Mobile Client

Mobile Client support for technicians who need to access SDP via iphone and other PDA’s. The client will have support for the following actions

• View ‘My Pending’, ‘All Pending’ and ‘All Requests’.
• Support for adding a resolution and closing the request.
• Support for adding WorkLog.
• Support for assigning requests to technicians.

Other Enhancements

• Request Module
  • First Response based SLA – Option to specify a first response time for a given SLA along with support for 1st level escalation.
  • Option to list “Request Pending My Approval” in the request list view
  • Customizable request Print View
  • Templates for replying a request
  • Templates for resolving a request

• Asset Module
  • Fetching software from Mac machine.
  • Support for scanning multi processor information in linux machine.
  • An asset can be connected to a number of services which can be captured in the Relationship section of an asset. This functionality, earlier available in Enterprise edition will now be available in professional edition also

• Remote Desktop
  • Earlier remote desktop connection will be established without client acknowledgment. Now client should acknowledge remote desktop access initiated by technician.
  • Option to enable / disable Remote Desktop Access functionality in the application.
  • Option to enable / disable Remote Desktop Access permission for technicians.

• Software Licensing
  • Support for Client Access License (CAL) and Volume based Software licensing.
  • Additional fields for Software license.

• Problem / Change Module
  • Marking of a problem as Known Error is made configurable.
  • Earlier, changes of type ‘Standard’ are automatically considered to be pre-approved. This has been further enhanced so that any change type can be marked as pre-approved.
  • Problem/Change raised on an asset is displayed in the “Request” tab of the Asset details page.

• IT service segment is made available in Professional Edition. Earlier this was available only in the Enterprise edition.

• Support for NTLM v2 based authentication for pass through authentication (single sign on). Users who have configured single sign on before 7.6 need to reconfigure SSO after migrating to 7.6.

• Option to select the Domain for a requester and technician.

• Any modifications in the Admin section, an entry would be added in the log viewer.

• Option to Thread Dump is available in the Support Tab.

• Email Command
  • Ability to parse incoming mails on enabling E-mail Command under Mail Server Settings configuration.
  • Ability to parse incoming mails to set various request fields (like category, level, mode, priority and so on)
  • Operations like pick up request, assign request, close request, edit request can be performed through email itself.

• Http form submission based API enhancements
  • Http form submission API support to add / update / delete Site, Requesters, Technicians.
  • Http form submission API support to add / update Assets.

• Tasks Enhancements
  • Ordering of tasks
  • Groups support in tasks
  • Specifying the dependant tasks for a given task

• Business Rule Enhancements
  • Option to send mail when a rule matches
  • Option to continue with the next business rule even after a successful match.
  • Option to apply the Business rule on editing the request also.
  • Option to mark a Business Rule as inactive.
  • Option to override the values with the ones in Business rules on successful match.

• Notification Rules Enhancements
  • Notifications will not be sent to technicians when the operation is performed by the technicians themselves. New request creation, request assign, request close, task assign, task close notifications will not be sent to the technician, if the operation is performed by the technician himself / herself.

Behavioral Changes

• Certain modifications has been made to enhance the performance of ServiceDesk Plus,
  • The time frame to auto refresh the request list view page is set from “Every 3 minutes”. If the time frame is set to Every 2 minutes then on upgrading to 7.6, the value is automatically set to 3 minutes.
  • In all list views, the maximum number of rows is set to 250. If the number exceeds the maximum value and on upgrading to 7.6, the value is automatically set to 250.
  • Navigation buttons in the details page of request, problem and change has been disabled by default. If required, this option can be enabled in the database.
  • Column-wise search for requests on the bases of request template has been disabled.

• While printing a request, the assets associated to the requester will not be displayed.
• On reopening a request, the time frame from ‘Closed’ to ‘Open’ state is added to the due by time of the request.
• While creating a new request, technicians associated to the selected site and technicians with permission to view “All” sites from Roles would have been listed earlier. Now, only technicians who are directly associated to the site will be listed.
• On entering a solution/workaround for a Problem, the status of Known Issue must be marked manually from the Actions tab.
• Ability to add and execute Business Rules and Service Level Agreement without selecting the criteria. These Business Rules and Service Level Agreement are executed when the none of the request values satisfy any criteria mentioned in other Business Rules and Service Level Agreement.
• Access to Remote Desktop Control is restricted to technicians with AERemote Control role.
• System Log under Support tab can be viewed only by the administrator and the site administrator.

Issues Fixed

1. SD-12654: Problem in viewing attachments in Outlook 2003, when an email is sent from ServiceDesk Plus through exchange 2007.
2. SD-13809: In Requester login, the requester additional fields such as multi line and pick list are shown as a single line text field under “My Details” tab.
3. SD-13903, SD-14795: Due by time is not updated/recalculated when a closed/resolved request (within the due by time) is replied back.
4. SD-13972: In Change Module, a technician with View and Edit change permission is unable to add work log since there is no Add button in work log.
5. SD-13984: If the server is running in IST and the selected time zone in Personalize window is MST, then on editing the request details page the date values (created, due by) are displayed in IST.
6. SD-14101, SD-14156: Saving a draft from conversation does not save it in the parent request. Instead the draft is saved in the child request. The drafts cannot be viewed unless the request is split.
7. SD-14137: If a Holiday’s description contains ‘&’ then in edit holiday page, ‘&’ is displayed along with ‘amp;’.
8. SD-14138: Forwarding a conversation does not follow “Forwarding a Request” email template under the Notification Rules.
9. SD-14154: In IE 6 and IE 7 browsers, while associating department to a requester from requester list view page, an “Invalid argument” alert occurs but the department is associated to the requester.
10. SD-14214: Unable to associate Incidents from Actions drop down list under Problems and Change details page.
11. SD-14266: Change module -> Print Preview, the size of the attachment is improperly displayed in change print view.
12. SD-14290: Unable to dissociate all the groups that are associated to the technician from the technician edit page.
13. SD-14314: Unable to edit and update requests when the priority field is removed from the template. This occurs only in Inline Edit.
14. SD-14365: List of all technicians is displayed while assigning tasks for a request in a site.
15. SD-14337, SD-14388, SD-14424: Issue with navigation link in the site list view page. The first 100 sites are displayed, and neither selecting ‘show 200 per page’ option nor clicking the next button allows users to view the 2nd or 3rd page of sites. Also, selecting the view 25 or 50 sites fails to change the display.
16. SD-14397: Reset the requester view permission to “Show all their site request”. After an AD import the request view permission reverts back to “Show only their own request.”
17. SD-14423: Unable to select additional fields with quotes in Request Closing Rules.
18. SD-14648: Duplication of requesters occurs while associating assets to users on Importing Assets from CSV.
19. SD-14702: Duplication of assets on changing the Product Type of a Product.
20. SD-14781: Unable to import users from Active Directory again if the department is disabled.
21. SD-14817: If the change additional fields are set as mandatory under change closure rules, then on removing the additional fields, the change cannot be closed.
22. SD-14861: On clicking “View All Conversations” link in Request Details page, the navigation buttons disappears.
23. SD-14890: Bullets in description of Requests, Problem, Changes are not shown while viewing. This happens only in IE browser.
24. SD-15303: Changes with Status as ‘Rejected’ and Approval Status as ‘Submitted for Approval’ are displayed under Unapproved Changes in the Home page.
25. SD-15325: In Problem/Change module -> History tab -> Property View link, the “by” field is always blank.
26. SD-15406, SD-15387: Editing the date/time additional field of a request will show the Request History values in a long format.
27. SD-21039: Department field becomes empty when the department field is not mapped while importing requesters from CSV for second time.
28. SD-21067: Failure in updating the requester’ s password on performing CSV import for the second time.
29. SD-21019: Malfunction in Scheduled Backup; when the backup location is in another machine and full rights of the backup folder is given to the user logged into ServiceDdesk Plus server.
30. SD-21193: Line breaks in a WorkLog description is not shown in the request details.
31. SD-21205: In a request template, though the value for the group is selected; while creating a new request with that template, the technicians based on the group is not displayed. Instead all the technicians under the requesters site is displayed.
32. SD-21208: Unable to edit the technician details if “&” character is in phone number (or) Mobile number field.
33. SD-21356: Request search works for the first 500 character of the request description.
34. SD-15283, SD-21350: Some of the ‘$’ variables are not replaced properly in Notes addition notification.
35. SD-21414: Incorrect values displayed in the “Task” column of change list view page.
36. SD-21748: Technicians with only ‘View’ permission for the change module are able to delete CAB members selected for approval.
37. SD-22196: In SLA escalation for Non English language, if the $ticket owner is added in the escalation list along with other technicians, on saving the $ticket owner is not displayed in the list.
38. SD-22217: While editing a requester, unable to set the department as None. This happens if sites are not configured.
39. SD-22220: In IE 7; unable to perform Network Scan based on IP address range.
40. SD-22256: Asset pre populated while creating a Preventive Maintenance task is not displayed while editing the Preventive Maintenance task

Support Center atualizado – Versão 7.5 Build 7507

Algumas questões do “non-english” foram corrigidas, questões relacionadas com IE e Business Units foram corrigidas tambem.

Release Notes (Build No. 7507 )

ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus 7.5 (Build No. 7507 ) release includes the following :

Issues fixed

• Editor line spacing issues in IE – Fixed.
• Configuring the additional fields in one Business unit removes the additional field values of another Business Unit.
• Completed time is not reset when a email gets threaded to a closed request – Fixed

Release Notes (Build No. 7506)

ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus 7.5 (Build No. 7506 ) release includes the following :

Issues Fixed

• Issues with non-english pages – fixed.

ServiceDesk Plus – Av Brigadeiro Faria Lima

Já tinha apresentado o ServiceDesk para esse cliente e eles gostaram do produto e utilizaram o Trial. Agora eles envolveram a equipe de INFRA e esse pessoal estava com duvidas e eles gostariam de uma apresentação (como diria uma pessoa “uma apresentação remota presencial”).

No inicio estava programado para ir com o vendedor A mas por problemas técnicos acabou indo a vendedora B (bem melhor assim neh rsrs). Saímos no horário e chegamos uns minutos antes da apresentação, o taxi era o 070 esse nunca tinha ido.

A apresentação ocorreu normalmente as duvidas sanadas, o pessoal de INFRA ficou de testar junto com o pessoal de HelpDesk.

Pedimos o taxi para voltar e como ia demorar muito (isso depois de esperar uns 13m), fui na padaria comprar um sorvete e quando estava aguardando o farol abrir o taxi chegou, sai correndo e acabei não comprando o sorvete….

Ate a próxima!!!

OpManager Professional – Atualização 8022 e 8024

OpManager v8 – Hotfix VI – Build No. 8024

Oct 9, 2009

Feature Enhancements:

• The tools in the Device Snapshot page now includes SSH⁄ HTTPs options
• Export of Switch Port Mapper Reports as PDF or Excel files. Option to send the report via email also included.
• Ability to send SMS if the OpManager server loses network connectivity.

Issues Fixed:

• Intermittent device polling issue is fixed
• Options to rediscover is disabled for read only users
• Notification fixes includes the following
  • Notification not sent for Threshold violation for some MSSQL ⁄ Exchange ⁄ Domain Controllers monitors are resolved
  • Notification not sent if the Windows service name contains underscore is fixed
• Unable to view the MSSQL – database instance name, in Weekly⁄ Monthly reports is resolved
• Service Level Management Dashboards add on details will be shown in the About Page
• Option to drop all the events information added
• Threshold rearm for process monitors fixed
• Multiple Real–time widget graphs loading issue is fixed
• Issue in My–sql backup for Non–English version, is resolved
• Write Community not getting updated during device discovery issue is fixed.

Readme for Build 8022

OpManager v8 – Hotfix V – Build No. 8022

Feature Enhancements:

• Notification Profile:
  • In addition to ‘Custom Fields for Devices’ and ‘Alarm Variables’, ‘Device Properties’ such as Device Type, Device State, RAM, Disk, IPAddress etc. can now be added to all the notification profiles
  • Option to add ‘Custom Fields for Devices’ and ‘Device Properties’ as arguments for Run System /Run Program command
• Option to select the required Devices is provided in the MIB Browser
• Provision to set the ‘List View’ as default map view
• Option to view the current downtime details in the Outage History reports
• Interface Real time graphs will be shown by default for all the users, irrespective of license applied
• The Netflow dashboard can now be seen from the OpManager webclient if the Netflow plugin is installed

Issues Fixed:

• Issue of status not getting updated for some devices is fixed
• Fixed the problem in accessing of the Map page for a Read Only User with access to certain business view
• Issue in showing incorrect source in trap forwarding scenario is resolved.The actual source device of the trap will be shown instead of the forwarded device
• Error page in switch snap-shot page if Netflow Plugin is started along with OpManager is fixed
• Issue of health report not shown if all the devices are in the ‘up’ state is fixed
• Unable to configure 0 as threshold value for process monitors is fixed

ServiceDesk Plus – Atualização 7.5 Build 7513

Do dia 18 de agosto ate primeiro de outubro tivemos tres atualizações:

Enhancements in 7513 (Released on :1 October, 2009)

Issues Fixed in this Service Pack

• SD-22797: Creating a request from self-service portal login by a requester associated to a site, request gets created with the site field as “Not in Any Site”

Enhancements in 7512 (Released on :16 September, 2009)

• SDF-21920: Support for SMTPS outgoing mails in ServiceDesk Plus.

Issues Fixed in 7512

• SD-21509: Based on the confirmation from the user who performs the change in template for a request, all the field values (except Subject and Description) based on the modified template will be updated. If not confirmed by the user, will populate the empty fields of the request with the modified templates values(except Subject and Description)
• SD-14395: Upon importing the requester information through CSV import, additional fields not more than 6 fields will not be updated.
• SD-21636: NullPointerException upon importing the standalone audit scan information through xml, in which the software do not have name associated to it.
• SD-21755: NullPointerException in AssetLease Notifications and will not be sent.

Issues Fixed in 7510 (Internally Released on :18-August-2009)

• SD-21864: Vulnerability issue in ServiceDeskPlus login. If pass through authentication is enabled, by manipulating login parameters (using tools like Firebug), user can login even with invalid password. This issue has been fixed.

OpManager Enterprise – Atualização 7500 SP1

Muitas novidades e muitas correções tambem…..

New Features or Enhancements

• Central MSSQL ⁄ Probe – Mysql or MSSQL datbase supported
• MSSQL Database support (version 2000 and 2005 supported)
• Migration from one database to other database
• Windows 2008 support
• Export data to XL view
• WebAlarms
• Schedule custom reports
• Enhancements in Discovery using import CSV file
• File⁄Folder monitoring
• Credential setting in Quick Configuration Wizard for bulk associations
• Delete notification profile in Quick Configuration Wizard for bulk delete of notification profiles
• SSHV2 support
• Rebranding tool
• User Creation includes sites too
• Process monitors can be added from central server also

Issues fixed

• All Server Disk Usage Report – PDF report was not working. That is fixed
• BV names not listed in dashboard
• Device Availability dial was showing not monitored while it was actually up for the last 24 hours. That is fixed
• In dashboard, sometimes the severity for the categories was wrong. While logged in using one site, the severity was shown for the other sites too. That is fixed
• Router IP Routing table, Address Table and Switch STP table were not working from central server. That is fixed
• WMI data collection for CPU, Memory, Disk – error handling from the device was missing and leads to data not being collected. That is fixed
• In BVNames, customer names and probe names are not allowed
• In Notification Profile, testAction is included
• Chat link removed in support tab
• Site report gives report of all sites – This is fixed
• Custom report – yesterday report was wrong – This is fixed
• In ScheduleReports, for users with administrator privilege but not with name ‘admin’, the business views were not listed. That is fixed
• If Site filter is selected, the BV has zero devices – That is fixed
• The total devices count in dashboard map was reflecting page length, though the charts reflected all devices in that category. This was misleading. This is fixed to show total devices count in that category
• Windows service monitors were not discovered from central server. That is fixed
• Credentails page – special characters handled
• Domain Controller category, cpu usage showed negative values. That is fixed
• All Domain Controllers showed as having problem in the snapshot page in probe, even when there are no problems. That is fixed
• Probes missing from the probes page in admin tab is fixed
• In DisplayName of the device, XML specific special characters are not allowed
• MapSymbols and MapLinks were disappearing from Business View if site filter is applied. That is fixed

Support Center Plus – Customer Support Software

Support Center Plus é uma solução abrangente no atendimento Held Desk, que pode ajudar qualquer empresa de classe mundial a fornecer suporte e serviço aos seus clientes a um preço acessível. È uma forma eficiente e eficaz de comunicação com seus clientes.

Com o Support Center Plus você reduz custos, simplifica processos, aumente a produtividade e com isso é possível dar total apoio aos clientes. Support Center Plus é uma solução acessível para a industria do Help Desk e pode ser implantado imediatamente, por que tem uma abordagem  integrada “Out of Box”. E também pode ser personalizada de acordo com as necessidades do seu negocio.

Com as novas Features do Suporte Center voce consegue criar varias unidades de negocios, cada uma com suas configurações personalizadas, e-mails, etc. Acesso remoto integrado a solução, é atraves do Zoho Meeting, eu testei e gostei bastante dessa ferramenta. Alem do novo visual que esta show de bola.

Temos duas versões do Suppor Center Plus

Standard Edition:

• Gerenciamento de Respostas de E-mails
• Gerenciamentos de Contas e Contatos
• Base de Conhecimento
• Gerenciamento de SLA
• Customer Service Reports
• Suporte a Multi Idiomas

Professional Editio (Tudo que tem na Standard mais):

• Self Service Portal
• Gerenciamento de Contratos
• Catalago de Serviço
• Active Directory
• Agendamento de Sincronização de CSV
• Pesquisa de Satisfação
• Unidades de Negocios
• Suporte a Multi Idiomas

Temos disponiveis dois ADD-ONs que pode serve para as duas edições:

1. CTI Integration
2. Acesso Remoto

Essa solução é ideal para prestação de serviços e gerenciamento de clientes, contatos, contratos, SLA, E-mails. Você disponibiliza para seu cliente um usuário e senha para que ele acesse o portal e crie suas solicitações e acompanhe em tempo real as atualizações. Todos os e-mails trocados com os clientes são automaticamente incluídos na solicitação, facilitando assim o controle e no caso do técnico que esta atendendo não estiver na empresa qualquer outro técnico pode dar atendimento por que vai ter todo o histórico de e-mails, anotações, tarefas, procedimentos enviados, etc

Através da base de conhecimento você disponibiliza para seu cliente os problemas mais comuns e suas soluções evitando assim aberturas de solicitações que tenha uma solução. Cadastro de plano de suportes, cada um com sua SLA personalizada.

Application Manager atualizado – Versão 9 Build 9002