IDERA (CopperEgg)IDERA CopperEgg Integration Guide

IDERA provides insight into cloud servers, websites, web applications and services to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues. Integrate AlertOps’ alert management platform with IDERA to receive and respond to critical alerts through email, SMS, push notification, and phone alerts. AlertOps ensures that alerts received from IDERA always reach the correct, available team member by utilizing escalation policies and on-call schedules.

AlertOps Configuration

1. From the main menu, click on Integrations and then select Inbound Integrations from the sub menu.
2. Select API tab
3. Select the 'ADD API INTEGRATION' button.
4. You should now be on the API Integration Detail page. Select CopperEgg from the pre-built Integration Templates.
5. Enter a name for the integration. Select an escalation rule to determine the integration's escalation policy. 
6. Enter the names of recipient group(s) and recipient user(s). 
7. Click 'SAVE.' Then, click 'COPY URL' to copy the URL endpoint to be used in the IDERA configuration.

IDERA Configuration

Step 1: Refer to IDERA documentation. 

Data Sample – Open Alert
 {
 “alertid”:14585497,
 “create_time”:”2014-12-24T20:30:06Z”,
 “clear_time”:null,
 “alert_text”:”CopperEgg Monitoring: Site Down (Probe Uptime (max) 0.0% < 0.33%) “,
 “tags”:[],
 “kind”:”active”,
 “alert_source”:”probe”,
“details”:[“description”,”Additional Information”,{“label”:”CopperEgg Monitoring”,”description”:”CopperEgg Monitoring”,”destination”:”http://cyberkorp.test.gocybertalk.net”,”frequency”:”300″,”type”:”GET”}] }

Data Sample – Close Alert
 {
 “alertid”:14585497,
 “create_time”:”2014-12-24T20:30:06Z”,
 “clear_time”:null,
 “alert_text”:”CopperEgg Monitoring: Site Down (Probe Uptime (max) 0.0% < 0.33%) “,
 “tags”:[],
 “kind”:”active”,
 “alert_source”:”probe”,
“details”:[“description”,”Additional Information”,{“label”:”CopperEgg Monitoring”,”description”:”CopperEgg Monitoring”,”destination”:”http://cyberkorp.test.gocybertalk.net”,”frequency”:”300″,”type”:”GET”}] }

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Alert Triggering Information

AlertOps will automatically create an incident when a new alert is received from IDERA with an IncidentStatus status of “Active.”

If an alert with status “Active” matches an existing Open Alert, AlertOps will recognize the new alert as a duplicate and ignore the alert. The alert will be recorded in the Inbound Messages table as “Mapped Appended.”

AlertOps will automatically close the same incident when an alert with an IncidentStatus status “Cleared” is received.

Testing and Troubleshooting

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