Author: Jim Brandt
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Manage your Splunk Alerts and Event in Request Tracker
If you run Splunk for observability, you can easily integrate with Request Tracker (RT) or RTIR with the RT connector app available right in Splunkbase. This integration is designed to automatically create new tickets from alerts, allowing you to effectively assign and manage incidents, ensuring that your team is always on top of issues as…
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Developer Preview: Request Tracker 6
We’re getting excited about the new features in RT 6, so we wanted to give you a first look at some of the updates coming soon. This release is packed with new features and enhancements designed to make your ticket management experience faster, more intuitive, and visually engaging. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in…
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Moving to Request Tracker from Another Ticketing System
You have decided to make the big move and start using Request Tracker for ticketing, maybe because of the features, flexibility, open source code, or reasonably priced cloud hosting plans. Whatever the reason, you are ready to switch, but you don’t want to lose all of the information you have in your existing system. You…
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The Perl and Raku Conference 2024
Jason Crome from Best Practical recently attended the Perl and Raku Conference 2024 in sunny (and hot!) Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to giving a talk about improving your README on github, Jason attended other presentations and pulled together a list of the most interesting. And the best part is that the conference posts all…
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RT for Incident Response (RTIR) Integration with MISP
In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, staying ahead of potential threats requires effective threat intelligence sharing and streamlined incident response processes. The new integration between RTIR (Request Tracker for Incident Response) and the MISP Threat Sharing platform brings together two powerful tools to enhance your organization’s security posture. What is MISP? MISP is an open-source…
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RT 5.0.6 Now Available
Following up on Star Wars Day and Cinco de Mayo, we thought May 6th needed something special, so we’re happy to release RT 5.0.6 today (5/6). If you use assets with RT, you’re going to like this release. If you don’t, what are you waiting for? Go check out this new intro to assets video…
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Help us spread the word about RT
Best Practical has never been much of a marketing-driven company–RT has always grown by word of mouth. One of the things that we’re most proud of here is that RT isn’t a typical “product with customers”, but a product with a community. The features we add to RT are driven pretty directly by what our…
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Could Formula 1 Change Lanes from Excel to Request Tracker for Asset Tracking?
In the high-octane world of Formula 1 racing, every detail counts. From aerodynamics to engine performance, teams strive for perfection in every aspect of their cars’ design and construction. But Ars Technica tells the story of a Formula 1 team reaching the limits of MS Excel as a system to track their massive parts inventory.…
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Managing AWS Reservations with Request Tracker Assets
Want to use AWS reservations to save money, but have trouble matching your reservations to your EC2 servers? Or maybe you want to spread out your reservations, but need an easy way to get a list of servers that currently don’t have a reservation? AWS reporting doesn’t currently make this possible, but Request Tracker’s asset…
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Streamlining Change Management with Simple Request Tracker Extension
Managing change in a hosting environment is a complex task that can involve adding new services, software updates, and configuration changes. Request Tracker (RT) provides all of the tools to schedule and track these changes, especially using the Change Management extension we showed recently. But this scheduling and tracking can only happen if the change…