New Hangouts Meet peripheral issue alerts and improved connectivity alerts
Thursday, March 21, 2019
- Device name
- Location
- Alert id (identical for open and close alerts)
- Issue type (Connectivity or Peripheral)
- Issue (Offline, Missing microphone, Missing camera, etc)
- Issue opened timestamp
- Issue closed timestamp (if closed)
- Asset location (from the assigned calendar)
- Annotated location (if set for the device)
- Asset id (if set for the device)
- Serial number
- Direct link to the device page in Google Admin console
Example alerts — email
Open alert
Close alert
Example alert — text message
Open alert
For text message, alerting is only sent out when an issue is detected, not on close.
- Admins: To enable the Hangouts Meet hardware alerts:
- In the Admin console, go to Devices > Google meeting room hardware > Settings and policies
- Select the organization for which you want to change the settings for alerts
- Enter contact details — email(s) and/or mobile phone number(s)
- Select delivery methods for connectivity status alerts and peripheral alerts: Click Save to apply the settings
- End users: No action required
Availability
- Rapid Release domains: Fully rolled out to all domains.
- Scheduled Release domains: Fully rolled out to all domains.
G Suite editions
- Available to all G Suite Editions.
On/off by default?
- This feature will be OFF by default.
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