How to guide on how to create alarm issues from Nodinite.

Use Nodinites excellent webhook to POST data to Jira and map that to issues using iHub.

Result

This tutorial should result in issues being created when alarms goes off in Nodinite.

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Step 1. Webhook in Nodinite

• Set up a webhook in Nodinite, see doc https://documentation.nodinite.com/Documentation/Administration?doc=/5.%20Settings/1.%20Alarm%20Plugins/Features/HTTP%20Webhook

• Enter the

  Inbound

  Incoming Webhook URL for Integrations hub for Jira found on

  the Inbound Integrations

  the  Incoming Webhooks page in the blue info box. (baseUrl/rest/restfulintegrator/1.0/incoming)
  Use basic auth as auth.
  

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• This will send the alarms to

  iHub inbound

  iHub Incoming Webhook rule engine.

• You can test sending an alarm using the webhook and view the Logs tab on

  the Inbound Integrations

  the Incoming Webhook section. This will show how the data looks like.

• An example payload exists here: 

• https://documentation.nodinite.com/Documentation/Administration?doc=/5.%20Settings/1.%20Alarm%20Plugins/Features/HTTP%20Webhook

Step 2. Setup

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Integration to create the issues

• Click create and select a Group called Nodinite

• Click create and select an Iteration called Nodinite - Iterate monitors

• Set Json Path to array: $.MonitorViews

This will tell iHub to go through each Monitor View in Nodinite.

• Next is to add the the Action that creates the issues

• Click create and select Action

• Choose template category Jira Core

• Choose template Create Issue

• Click Create
  Structure should look like this
  

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• Make sure the action has Auto-generate 1st level as variables from parent response selected

• Select the credential

• Modify this body to fit your instance
  

  Code Block
  language js
  { "fields": { "project": { "key": "ITSUP" }, "summary": "Monitor: {{Name}}", "issuetype": { "name": "Task" }, "description":"{{Description}} has Status {{StatusCode.Name}} for resources: {{#ChangedResources}} * {{Name}}{{/ChangedResources}}", "reporter": { "name": "kg" }, "labels": [ "nodinite", "alarm" ] } }

  
  

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