KACE Product Support

Greetings all,

A few weeks ago with everyone's help I was able to configure email notifications for newly created tickets so that only technical resources for a specific problem category would be notified. This works well, and has the potential to drasticly reduce helpdesk "spam" for many of our techs and programmers (who, with our old helpdesk system got an email about every single ticket, regardless of content).

Some of our resource groups have gotten into the habit of... lets say... forgetting that tickets have been submitted that require their attention. The old excuse about tickets getting lost in a barrage of emails isn't valid anymore, but what I would like to do is have a "reminder" email notification if tickets sit around with the owner set to "Unassigned" for more than a day. 

Here is my current "new ticket" notification rule:

   SELECT
      -- ticket fields
      HD_TICKET.ID, -- $id
      HD_TICKET.ID AS TICKNUM, -- $ticknum
      HD_TICKET.TITLE, -- $title
      DATE_FORMAT(HD_TICKET.CREATED,'%b %d %Y %I:%i:%s %p') AS CREATED, -- $created
      DATE_FORMAT(HD_TICKET.MODIFIED,'%b %d %Y %I:%i:%s %p') AS MODIFIED, -- $modified
      -- change fields
      C.COMMENT, -- $comment
      C.DESCRIPTION, -- $description
      GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT('----- Change by ', UPDATER.EMAIL,' at ',H.TIMESTAMP,' -----\n',
       H.DESCRIPTION,'\n',H.COMMENT,'\n\nPlease see your ticket at http://vk1000.****.local/userui/ticket.php?ID=',H.HD_TICKET_ID,'\n')
       ORDER BY H.ID DESC SEPARATOR '\n') HISTORY, -- $history
      -- about the updater
      UPDATER.USER_NAME AS UPDATER_UNAME, -- $updater_uname
      UPDATER.FULL_NAME AS UPDATER_FNAME, -- $updater_fname
      UPDATER.EMAIL AS UPDATER_EMAIL,     -- $updater_email
      IF(UPDATER.FULL_NAME='',UPDATER.USER_NAME,UPDATER.FULL_NAME) AS UPDATER_CONDITIONAL, -- $updater_conditional
      -- about the owner
      OWNER.USER_NAME AS OWNER_UNAME, -- $owner_uname
      OWNER.FULL_NAME AS OWNER_FNAME, -- $owner_fname
      OWNER.EMAIL AS OWNER_EMAIL,     -- $owner_email
      IFNULL(OWNER.USER_NAME,'Unassigned') OWNER_USER, -- $owner_user
      -- about the submitter
      SUBMITTER.USER_NAME AS SUBMITTER_UNAME, -- $submitter_uname
      SUBMITTER.FULL_NAME AS SUBMITTER_FNAME, -- $submitter_fname
      SUBMITTER.EMAIL AS SUBMITTER_EMAIL,     -- $submitter_email
      -- about priority
      P.NAME AS PRIORITY, -- $priority
      -- about status
      S.NAME AS STATUS,   -- $status
      -- about impact
      I.NAME AS IMPACT,   -- $impact
      -- about category
      CAT.NAME AS CATEGORY, -- $category
      -- other fields
      -- -- static distribution list
      'email1@****.com,email2@****.com' AS NEWTICKETEMAIL -- $newticketemail
    FROM HD_TICKET
     /* latest change ***/ JOIN HD_TICKET_CHANGE C ON C.HD_TICKET_ID = HD_TICKET.ID
                            AND C.ID=<CHANGE_ID>
     /* complete history*/ JOIN HD_TICKET_CHANGE H ON H.HD_TICKET_ID = HD_TICKET.ID
     /* priority ********/ JOIN HD_PRIORITY P ON P.ID=HD_PRIORITY_ID
     /* status **********/ JOIN HD_STATUS S ON S.ID=HD_STATUS_ID
     /* impact-severity */ JOIN HD_IMPACT I ON I.ID=HD_IMPACT_ID
     /* category ********/ JOIN HD_CATEGORY CAT ON CAT.ID=HD_CATEGORY_ID
     /* owner ***********/ LEFT JOIN USER OWNER ON OWNER.ID = HD_TICKET.OWNER_ID
     /* submitter *******/ LEFT JOIN USER SUBMITTER ON SUBMITTER.ID = HD_TICKET.SUBMITTER_ID
     /* updater *********/ LEFT JOIN USER UPDATER ON UPDATER.ID = C.USER_ID
    WHERE
     C.DESCRIPTION LIKE 'TICKET CREATED%'
AND
     CAT.NAME LIKE 'Software%'
      /* this is necessary when using group by functions */
    GROUP BY HD_TICKET.ID
    HAVING 1=1

I'm reasonably sure that this can be modified to meet my needs, I'm just not quite sure how to go about doing so.

from playing around with the rule creation wizard (not exceedingly helpful) I'm thinking I need to add something like this:

  (((  (1  in (select 1 from USER where HD_TICKET.OWNER_ID = USER.ID and USER.FULL_NAME = 'Unassigned')) ) AND HD_TICKET.TIME_OPENED > '1d') and HD_TICKET.HD_QUEUE_ID = 1 )

and then just modify the email that's sent to reflect an unassigned ticket as opposed to a new ticket.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!