Aruba Central Webhook integration with Slack
Overview
Aruba Central is a cloud-based network management and monitoring solution for Aruba Instant Access Points, Switches, and SD-WAN gateways.
It has lots of Alerts to notify IT managers network problems.
To receive these Alerts on Slack, you can use this Flow.
Usage
- Setup Aruba Central Webhook to Node-RED on public server. (I used AWS)
- Setup Slack to receive incoming Webhook.
- Setup Node-RED Flow as a relay server.
Traffic Flow
Aruba Central --> Node-RED@AWS --> Slack incoming Webhook
How to setup Aruba Central Alerts and Webhook.
General Alert Configuration
Take a look at the Aruba's document.
You can choose Email or Webhook to send each Alert.
Webhook
- Go to "Maintenance" > "API Gateway" > "Webhook", then create a new Webhook.
- Put Your Node-RED URL there. (eg. http://your_server_address:1880/webhook)
How to setup Slack incoming Webhook
Take a look at the Slack's document.
You only need a Webhook URL like "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
How to setup Node-RED Flow.
- In "Set Values" function, set Slack's Webhook URL as msg.url.
- If you need to modify messages to Slack, change "Set Messages" function.
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