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Mobile application
Dear Atera Team,
I hope this message finds you well. We have been utilizing the Atera mobile application for managing our field technician operations and have found it to be a useful tool in many aspects. However, we have encountered some limitations in the mobile app functionality that have been impeding the efficiency and productivity of our technicians. I would like to provide feedback on two major flaws that we believe need urgent attention and improvement:
Task Scheduling Limitation:
Our field technicians heavily rely on the mobile application for task management while they are on the field. However, it appears that the mobile app does not permit technicians to schedule tasks directly from Atera, forcing them to use a laptop for this basic yet crucial operation. This limitation hinders the flexibility and real-time responsiveness of our field operations, making the scheduling process cumbersome and less efficient.Limited Access to Custom Ticket Statuses:
We often schedule our tickets to a later time, for which we have created a custom status named "Ticket is scheduled." Unfortunately, we have noticed that the mobile application only displays the standard ticket statuses such as Open, Pending, Resolved, Closed, and Deleted. This restriction prevents our field technicians from accessing and viewing tickets assigned to them with our custom status, thus creating a gap in task visibility and management.Suggested Improvements:
Enable task scheduling functionality directly from the mobile app, allowing our field technicians to manage their schedules more efficiently without needing a laptop.
Enhance the mobile app to support and display custom ticket statuses, ensuring that technicians have full visibility of their assigned tasks, including those with non-standard statuses.
We believe that these improvements are essential for the seamless operation of our field services and will greatly enhance the user experience and productivity of our technicians. We would greatly appreciate it if these issues could be addressed promptly in the upcoming app update.
Dear Atera Team,
I hope this message finds you well. We have been utilizing the Atera mobile application for managing our field technician operations and have found it to be a useful tool in many aspects. However, we have encountered some limitations in the mobile app functionality that have been impeding the efficiency and productivity of our technicians. I would like to provide feedback on two major flaws that we believe need urgent attention and improvement:
Task Scheduling Limitation:
Our field technicians heavily rely on the mobile application for task management while they are on the field. However, it appears…1 vote -
Custom Ticket Activity Status
Recently Atera has added the ability to create custom ticket status, and also change the Ticket Activity Status manually. However I would like to create our own custom ticket activity status' beyond the "Read" "unread" "Awaiting customer response" "Awaiting Technician Response".
Personally I find the coloured labels much easier to identify what the status of a ticket is, so being able to add Activity status' like "Pending Third Party" or "Booked in" will make it much easier to see what tickets I don't need to look at with a quick glance.
34 votes -
Patch Management Exceptions (Product Family Control)
Currently when adding exceptions within a patch management profile you must add the exceptions on a per patch basis. However, we are running into instances were certain servers should not receive specific product updates automatically day one (e.g., SQL, and PowerShell).
It would be nice to have a feature that acts as a wild card exception for any related patches to a product existing or future so we don't have to update the policy prior to every maintenance window.
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Remote Live View
Kaseya has this feature that allows an admin to view the user's screen without actually remote controlling in. This allows an admin to check if the user is actively working.
5 votes -
Script-based Threshold Item
The new script-based threshold item is a really great addition, but it highlights an important component missing from Atera - inheritance.
When applying thresholds to endpoints, it's necessary to have thresholds inherit monitors from upstream thresholds. Right now in Atera, only one threshold can be applied to any endpoint at a time. What we need are thresholds that can build upon each other and overwrite values based on where the value changes.
For instance, I'd like to configure a top level (default) threshold to apply to everyone, but then get more specific with thresholds at a customer, and even more specific with thresholds on folders. Application of thresholds is pretty straightforward and goes like this: apply the closest threshold to an endpoint, then apply the next closest threshold and discard any monitors that are already applied to the endpoint, then keep moving up the chain until you reach the top level threshold.
This way, we can get really creative and automate much more than we currently can.
Here's an example. Most of us have an anti-malware solution which has an installer per customer. If inheritance was implemented we could set a threshold profile for the customer that only contains a single script-based monitor to check for the presense of the anti-malware solution, if it isn't found then attach an auto-healing script to the monitor to get it installed. This would then leave the rest of the monitors at a higher level threshold profile undisturbed so they can continue to work on the endpoint as required. Now we don't have to clone threshold profiles to monitor the things we need - that becomes a nightmare to manage when you need to update them.
The new script-based threshold item is a really great addition, but it highlights an important component missing from Atera - inheritance.
When applying thresholds to endpoints, it's necessary to have thresholds inherit monitors from upstream thresholds. Right now in Atera, only one threshold can be applied to any endpoint at a time. What we need are thresholds that can build upon each other and overwrite values based on where the value changes.
For instance, I'd like to configure a top level (default) threshold to apply to everyone, but then get more specific with thresholds at a customer, and even more…
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Backup Option with Backblaze B2 Storage
Backblaze B2 storage, by far, is a much better value per GB and an easier sell for customers than Acronis and Axcient. These are the current B2 integrations https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
Please add yourself to this list and come up with an option, if technically feasible.
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Monitor Carbonite Status
Atera needs to be able to monitor Carbonite status.
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Ticket time blocks
Add a feature/option where we can set a mandatory minimum amount for something like on-site support. For example, set it to where each ticket gets billed at one hour minimum, then at 15-minute increments thereafter. Quite a few MSP's, and other small shops have a mandatory minimum of an hour per ticket in their contracts, even if it takes them 20 minutes to fix an issue. That way, they can have more standardized billing practices.
1 vote -
Display interface for SNMP
Display interface for the SNMP: memory use,
5 votes -
Value parsing in OID values
It should be possible to parse specific parts of OID values. Some manufacturers return strings with units in them e.g. "12 PERCENT". Parse the value of that string and cast it to easy comparable data types.
3 votes -
Delivery Optimization thru Atera
Atera can use Delivery Optimization (Microsoft). Finally, Microsoft developed better Windows Updates through Delivery Optimization to efficiently manage the data transmitted thru the Internet.
Now, Atera needs to be able to use this feature instead of enabling "Local Windows Updates" to be used.
1 vote -
Work from home: client has two monitors, I want to see the two with my session
Work from home: client has two monitors, I want to see the two with my session
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Pop Up
i will like atera to implement a feature to allow a pop message to appear in the centre of the screen for all clients at ones, the reason for that would be so ones a month i could update all systems without worrying that work was left unsaved, this way i could schedule a popup window with a signout button on it, and the message will read, Your IT is running updates overnight please save your work and click sign out at the end of your workday.
the message can only disappear when sign out is clicked, i should then receive a message back stating whether it is safe to run updates.i will like atera to implement a feature to allow a pop message to appear in the centre of the screen for all clients at ones, the reason for that would be so ones a month i could update all systems without worrying that work was left unsaved, this way i could schedule a popup window with a signout button on it, and the message will read, Your IT is running updates overnight please save your work and click sign out at the end of your workday.
the message can only disappear when sign out is clicked, i should then…12 votes -
Knowledgebase security
Should have custom read/contribute/modify/delete access for Knowledgebase.
2 votes -
Automation Reporting Detail
Differentiate between Agent that are offline during an update and ones with issues performing the actual update.
When I go to the report for automation / windows patching I can't tell whether an agent was offline or there was an error with the update process. Please provide more detail in the the automation report so I know what I should be troubleshooting.
2 votes -
Install agent activity on activity log
Install agent activity on activity log
8 votes -
Disk exclusion based on size.
Ignore disk smaller than x GB to ignore recovery or USB license keys.
3 votes -
Auto uncapitalize Tickets
Emails from people who talk in all caps.
Some people never learn to just use normal punctuations and email etiquette.1 vote -
Remote
It would be ideal if we can remote into a computer as a different user and not take over the current user session. It would be nice to have this so we can run in another session in the background while the current user is able to stay logged into their current session.
Kind of like how two people can remote into a server at the same time.
1 vote -
Subject/Title conditions, CC email action capability in ticket automation rules
I really like what you've done so far with the ticket automation rules - we've found a lot of use already in the current capabilities.
Could you please consider adding CC: actions to ticket automation? Specifically, the ability to strip CC:'s, and add CC:'s based on conditions.
In our specific scenario:
We have some routine ticket emails for employee changes/terminations that are sent to the helpdesk. All are titled consistently enough where we could build the condition we need to work off of. The ticket email typically contains about 20ish other personnel that do not need to be involved in the "ticket fodder" emails while we work the ticket; and, we have a couple users that we add to this ticket as well. If ticket automation could handle this, we wouldn't have to do what we do manually:Remove all unnecessary CC's from the ticket to cut down on ticket noise.
Add two CC's to the ticket so they are in the loop on EE changes/terminationsThat's just one scenario, we have several other ways we would use this if the ability was there.
Thanks for considering!
I really like what you've done so far with the ticket automation rules - we've found a lot of use already in the current capabilities.
Could you please consider adding CC: actions to ticket automation? Specifically, the ability to strip CC:'s, and add CC:'s based on conditions.
In our specific scenario:
We have some routine ticket emails for employee changes/terminations that are sent to the helpdesk. All are titled consistently enough where we could build the condition we need to work off of. The ticket email typically contains about 20ish other personnel that do not need to be involved in…2 votes
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