PowerShell Rest API V3
I figured it would be worthwhile to share the PowerShell script I have that uses API v3 for working with requests. Hopefully this will help some people that are trying to use this. $ApiKey = "API Key here" # Technician API Key $SdpUri = "http://sdpurl.com" # SDP URL # Gets information on an existing request function Get-Request { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true, Position=0)] [alias ("id")] [Int32] $RequestID, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
[Term of the Day]: Synthetic Data
Term of the Day “Synthetic Data” Definition — What is Synthetic Data? Synthetic data is information that's programmatically generated rather than data created naturally in the real world. Synthetic data is created without actual driving organic data events. For example, while a real set of identifiers is collected about a customer who uses a platform, an engineer could ultimately just create the same identifiers for a fictional customer, and load them into the system – and that would be an example
[ForYourInformation - 42] Task Template Enhancements
You may all know about the task templates behavior changes on the build 11107. Now we have a few enhancements released with 11115 builds of ServiceDesk Plus. Existing Behaviour : In the Request Template workflow tab, we can associate Task Templates to the request template. There is also an option to create a new Task Template and associate it. However, an associated task template cannot be edited inside the request template. Enhancement : Now the edit option is available from 11115 builds. You can edit
Approve in SDP
Hello everyone, I have 1 task related question in 1 request. My case is as follows: When I received 1 computer troubleshooting request. I have created a number of tasks according to the troubleshooting process. In it I have created a job that requires the approval of some people. (Only approve the task I'm handling). If I decline, I need to plan a new task to take action and continue to submit an approval request until approved. If the task is approved, I can complete the task and close the request.
Restore failed in SDP 9411
Hi, I wanna to restore database in new server with restoreData.bat and error me " Invalid column name 'WORKSTATIONID'." What should I do? It's very important for me? DB: MS SQL Build No: 9411 Thanks for helping
SDP service start but can't see login or other page (white page)
Hi, We use SDP v9411 and suddenly we can't access to SDP panel. SDP service is start but I can't see any page of SDP even login page. I sent log file for you. I don't understand reason of this problem. I see log file and see this error frequently: No ManagedConnections available within configured blocking timeout ( 30000 [ms] ); - nested throwable: (javax.resource.ResourceException: No ManagedConnections available within configured blocking timeout Also I search this error and see resolution, but
API questions
Hello All, I am developing a user interface using API V3 for our office, forcing important details into the ticket that our staff usually neglects. That said, I would like to add an interface to list the user's open tickets, then allowing them to add notes and close a ticket without sending them to the web interface. It's not a replacement, but a method of collecting information they always leave out, like "What server are you on?" So again, I need a View All Requests JSON for all requests of
Populate additional field with list of requesters in SDP
For access change and terminating employee templates, we would like to have an additional field like "Employee Name" that would let the requester select from the list of requesters setup in SPD. Is this possible?
[Term of the Day]: Security Operations Center
Term of the Day “Security Operations Center” Definition — What is SOC? A Security Operations Center often referred to as a SOC. It is a physical or a virtual facility within an organization that comprises a team of IT professionals with expertise in information security. The team analyzes and monitors the security systems of an organization. SOC teams isolate abnormal activity on servers, databases, networks, endpoints, applications, etc., identify security threats, investigate them, and ensures
ServiceDesk Plus 11123 Released
Dear Users, SDP 11123 has been released and can be downloaded from the URL below, https://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/service-packs.html Enhancements Cancel Request Option to move unnecessary requests to Cancelled status. SDAdmins can grant request cancel permission to users. Theme Enhancements Using theme settings you can customize the application's default color and font. You can apply the theme settings for all users or allow each user to select their own color and font. Allowing
[Term of the Day]: Wireless Body Area Network
Term of the Day “Wireless Body Area Network” Definition — What is WBAN and it's purpose? WBANs consist of wirelessly connected nodes of sensors or actuators that are specially designed to operate autonomously to connect various medical sensors and devices. The nodes are placed in, on and around/off the human body forming a network for the continuous and unobtrusive monitoring of physiological and/or environmental signals to support medical, lifestyle and entertainment applications. With the rapid
System requirements of Asset Explorer
Hi, To install Asset Explorer, the latest version of operating system and database, windows server 2016 and sql server 2017 are mentioned. Does not support windows server 2019 and sql server 2019? Is there a problem with the installation? reference: https://www.manageengine.com/products/asset-explorer/system_requirements.html Thanks.
Organization Roles doesn't work
Hi in Service Catalog / workflow, when I set Approver to Specific Users everything is fine. But When I Selected Site Roles or Department Roles Approver, it doesn't work!! 1. I set user as technician and tick Approver check box 2. I add user to Site Manager as a Approver 3. I set Stage One to Site Manager 4. In Request form the Site field is correctly chooised. my SDP number : 11.0 Build 11010
Intermediate certificates when using PFX wildcard certs
Hi all, We have installed our wildcard certificate in to our SDP installation, but we are getting errors about no intermediate certificates available. Is it possible to add in the intermediates separately or am I going to have to move the the keystore process way to enable this? Thanks Andy
Reply Templates - content variables from requester additional fields
For a reply template: Is it possible to get the Content Variables from the Requester Additional Fileds?
IP Address Doesn't appear in asset table
Hi in Assets > Virtual Hosts ; IP Address column is empty. While in Asset page IP Address field is full and Ok.
[Tips & Tricks] A guide on Exporting and Importing tickets
In certain scenarios, we may require tickets alone to be exported from ServiceDesk Plus leaving other configurations ( like SLA, Business Rule, Priority, etc). This exported tickets can be imported to a test environment or 3rd party applications. This article will give you guidelines on methods of tickets export and import. Tickets can be export in 2 ways 1. Export tickets from the requests list view: The Ticket Export feature allows you to export tickets based on the selected Request type and Request
How do approvals work in Request Lifecyle?
Hi, I'm confused as to how the "Initiate Approval" works in the lifecycle module? I cant see any action to request approval anywhere? All documentation and two YouTube clips completely skirt over the topic! Does anyone know how to configure this? Thanks
Report on closure notes per technician
Greetings Comrades, I have been hunting for a report in MSSQL which will show all Resolution notes for tickets closed in the last 7 days so that these can be reviewed with team members at their one-to-ones. The required column would be: RequestID Requestor Title Closed date Technician Resolution I'm hoping someone with a greater mind than mine can help!
Roles
When I uncheck Edit in permission roles, the "Assigning technician" unchecked automatically, why? We want all technicians not to be able to edit the request but to be able to assign the request to each other, it it possible?
[SOLVED]Validation Error When Submit a Request in Firefox
Hi friends... I have a problem when I submit a request in firefox when i fill mandatory fields in request form SDP will show me Empty Mandatory fields error message
[Term of the Day]:Content Management System
Term of the Day “Content Management System” Definition — What is CMS? CMS stands for the Content Management System. CMS is a software that helps you create, edit, delete, and manage content for your website using a user-friendly interface, rather than needing to work directly with the code. CMS makes managing a web-based application or website much easier for users of all technical levels. Content management also ensures that whatever content you have is indexable or searchable, making it
Report - How to report on after hours
HI, Our CEO wants our daily request count at 5 PM everyday. We have daily closed request report that we send at 5 PM everyday. Problem is our technicians sometimes work after 5PM. How can we create a report that would capture the request closed after 5PM? Our report is set to daily - so when it is run at 5 every day it does not capture the closed requests after from the previous day.
Service Desk backup issue - Version 11.1 Build 11118 to build 11122
I am getting an error indicating Some Error occurred during backup. Please refer to SDPbackup.log file. The Service Desk service was stopped prior to running the backup.
Self Service Portal Customization to make it easier for users to enter tickets
Good morning, We are trying to customize the Self Service Portal to make it as simple as possible for the users to enter a new help desk ticket. Is there a way to bring the enter a default ticket to the front and center? Our users do not want to click through multiple screens or search for something. This is especially true when they do not know what they are looking for. They would like a website that they can enter in their problem and get on with their day. I think this can be done with a custom
Deploy AssetExplorer with a Standalone SQL Server
The procedure in the online documentation for configuring AssetExplorer with a separate standalone MS SQL server are incomplete, and raise many questions - they can be found here: https://help.servicedeskplus.com/introduction/setting_up_database.html$ms%20sql%20db I was only able to get the configuration working after a support call. The key issues that were not addressed in the documentation are: Install AssetExplorer using the default PostgreSQL server first The SQL Server must be installed and
[ForYourInformation -7] Copy request templates
Hello folks, Have you ever caught yourself sitting in the office, staring at the ceiling, pondering how you can, to put it bluntly, ‘wrestle down’ your template creation process? It is undeniable that the process of template creation is never-ending. In this blog post, you will find a hint to this conundrum. Creating a new template from scratch every time leads to consuming valuable time. Instead, copying/replicating a similar template and make necessary changes to it helps us save a lot of time.
E-mail Id(s) To Notify and Email command
Hi, SDP: 8122 is it possible fo fill in "E-mail Id(s) To Notify" field using Email Command parsing ? I don't see any e-mail content relative to this field. JFR
[Term of the Day]: MIME
Term of the Day “Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension” Definition — What is MIME? MIME is an internet standard for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they can be sent over the Internet. It helps extend the limited capabilities of email by allowing insertion of images, sounds and text in a message so that e-mails could include information other than just plain text. Most e-mail clients support MIME and now MIME types are not just for use with e-mail; they have been adopted by Web servers as
[Tips & Tricks] Best practices for deleting technicians
In a constantly changing environment, technicians come and go, and when it is time for them to depart how do you best maintain your support lines of communication? This article describes best practices for maintaining your lines of communication with your users after a technician departs your team. The following are the steps you will want to take when deleting a technician from your helpdesk: Reassign the Technician's tickets Changing the Technician as requester Deleting the Technician's account
[Community Digest] ServiceDesk Plus - July 2020
Happy new month wishes from us! Wish you all to leave old troubles alone and enter into a new month with fresh ideas and enthusiasm, with this quote Let's recap all the activities that happened in July 2020. Version and Build releases: We had 2 build releases 11121 (Released on 08 July 2020) 11122 (Released on 28 July 2020) check this link for more details Behaviour Changes: MDM Integration: To avoid factory reset devices from MDM getting detected as new devices in ServiceDesk Plus, the
Problem starting server
Can't seem to find any logs that it refers to but this is the full message. [root@support-server bin]# ./run.sh ================================================================================ JBoss Bootstrap Environment JBOSS_HOME: /opt/AdventNet/ME/ServiceDesk JAVA: /opt/AdventNet/ME/ServiceDesk/jre/bin/java JAVA_OPTS: -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dprogram.name=run.sh -Djboss.server.type=com.adventnet.j2ee.deployment.system.AdventNetServerImpl -Djboss.deploy.localcopy=true
Can I display additional field from CI in ticket Change form
Hi everyone, I am a newbie with ME SDP. I have just been responsible for administering ME SDP. And I need a support about the customization. We want to create new additional field in CI form named Affected Service. This field will have some values such: EMAIL/AD/LAN/WIFI,... And in the ticket Change, after we choose affected CI, we want the value of affected service in this CI will display automatically in ticket Change. Can we do it in SDP? If it can, please give me a guide to do this. Have a good
Externalization and internalization Service Catalog configuration
I have an Idea, Externalization and internalization Service Catalog (service forms configuration) from current server to another server, Like wordpress
Users custom widget
hi, in reference to this old ticket: https://pitstop.manageengine.com/portal/en/community/topic/more-default-widgets-to-choose-from-for-the-self-service-portal the folder structure is changed and i don't know how create the widget with more information. can you let me know how do this? service desk version: 11.1 Build 11121 on windows server 2016 thanks
How to Find Assets by All IP Address?
Hi we have many devices with multi IP Address, But I can't Search with all IP address in Search Field. Search Fields just work with first IP add (that IP Add when discovery asset). How can I find my device with any IP Address that set to device?
Service Catalog Templates Import/Export
We are implementing service catalogs with our SDP installation and not seeing where I can export or import templates. Is this possible? I've seen different information in the forums regarding this being a feature request. If it is not possible, what is the roadmap for having it available. Is there a work-around perhaps in SQL that can be used to export/import? Thanks! Scott
Disable Due Date rule on Incidents
On service catalog forms the Disable Due Date works fine, But On Incident forms this rule doesn't works!
How to redirect to non-standard SSL port?
Hello While enabling SSL on SDP, I find that when I go to http://helpdesk, I am redirected to https://helpdesk, and port 443 is assumed. I am running SDP on a different port (9443), but I can't figure out how to redirect traffic to that port. Help? Thanks..
[Community Tools] ServiceDesk Plus ChatBot
Let me introduce our New ServiceDesk Plus ChatBot No more long waiting for email replies or callbacks from the support team. Now ChatBot can instantly provide answers to your question and problem related to ServiceDesk Plus. You just need to land at our ManageEngine Pitstop home page to initiate the Chat, either from your Laptop, Desktop, Mobile, etc. ServiceDesk Plus ChatBot is designed with (AI) Artificial Intelligence and (NLP) Natural Language Processing features. It has self-learning capabilities
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