Slack Notifications - Alarming

hannah.godofsky · June 16, 2022, 5:25pm

I am trying to implement Slack notifications for alarms from Ignition on a really large project

I see this in one of the IA example readmes- “Users to be notified need to have an outgoing webhook registered through Slack’s API, then added to their user profile in Ignition.” I’m confused as to where this would be on the Gateway or something, FWIW the project I’m working on integrates with AD but even without that there just isn’t a field anywhere for webhooks when I just look at a blank project on Localhost.

If anyone knows anything about this, much appreciated.

PGriffith · June 16, 2022, 5:34pm

With the module installed, you should see an additional ‘contact type’ available for each user - that’s where you would set up the webhook URL.
So it would be an additional type in this list when configuring a user:

See:

github.com

inductiveautomation/ignition-sdk-examples/blob/master/slack-alarm-notification/slack-notification-gateway/src/main/java/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/examples/slack/GatewayHook.java#L37

      
        
            		
            		//allows you to add keys to properties file 
            		BundleUtil.get().addBundle("SlackNotification", getClass(), "SlackNotification");
            		
            		context.getModuleServicesManager().subscribe(AlarmNotificationContext.class, this);
            
            
		// This allows local overrides in the alarming section of the tag edit config
            		context.getAlarmManager()
            			.registerExtendedConfigProperties(ModuleMeta.MODULE_ID, SlackProperties.CUSTOM_MESSAGE);
            
            
		context.getUserSourceManager().registerContactType(SlackNotificationProfileType.SLACK);
            
            
		//update the schema for the local db
            		try{
            			context.getSchemaUpdater().updatePersistentRecords(SlackNotificationProfileSettings.META);
            		} catch (Exception e) {
            			log.error("Error configuring internal database for console notification module.", e);
            		}
            	}
            
            
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hannah.godofsky · June 16, 2022, 7:28pm

Oh!! That makes 100x more sense. Thanks.