Configure a Notification Profile

The Insights Settings page is displayed.

The Add Notification Setting page is displayed.

Table 1: Configure Notification Profile

Attributes	Description
Name	Enter a name for the notification.
Description	Enter a description for the notification.
Notification Type	Select a notification type: Web Hook Slack Kafka Publish AMQP Microsoft Teams EMails

The notification attributes vary based on the notification type selected.

• If you have selected Web Hook notification type, enter the following information:

  • URL	Enter the URL where the Web Hook notification must be posted.

  • Username

    Enter the username for basic HTTP authentication.

  • Password

    Enter the password for basic HTTP authentication.

• If you have selected Slack notification type, enter the following information:

  • URL	Enter the URL where the Slack notification must be posted. This is different from your Slack workspace URL. To create a Slack API endpoint URL, click https://slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook and sign in to your Slack workspace.

  • Channel

    Enter the channel on which the notification must be posted.

• If you have selected Kafka Publish notification type, enter the following information:

  • Bootstrap Servers

    Enter Kafka host:port pairs to establish the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.

  • Use Hash Partitioner

    Select this check box to store messages in consistent partitions based on a partitioning scheme (key).

  • Topic

    Enter the name of the Kafka topic in which data must be published. By default, the Kafka topic naming convention for device group alarm notifications is device-group.device-id.topic.rule.trigger.

  • Depending on the authentication protocols being used, the required authentication parameters are listed here:

    Protocol	Required Parameters
    SASL/SSL	Username, password and certificate
    SASL/Plaintext	Username and password
    SSL	Certificate
    Plaintext	None

    • Username

      Enter username for SASL/SSL or SASL/plaintext authentication.

    • Password

      Enter password for SASL/SSL or SASL/plaintext authentication.

    • Certificate

      Select Kafka server’s CA certificate from the drop-down list.

    • Upload Certificate

      Click Choose files and navigate to the location of the file that you want to upload. The file must be in Privacy Enhanced Mail (.pem) format.

• If you selected AMQP Publish notification type, enter the following information:

  • Host	Enter the hostname or IP address of the AMQP server.

  • Port	Enter the port number of the AMQP server.

  • Exchange

    Enter the AMQP exchange name (routing agent name).

  • Virtual Host

    Enter the virtual host that you configured in RabbitMQ management portal.

  • Routing Key

    Enter the AMQP routing key that helps exchange decide how to route the message.

  • Username

    Enter the username for the SASL/SSL authentication.

  • Password

    Enter the password for the SASL/SSL authentication.

  • CA Profile

    Select the CA certificate of AMQP server. You can configure the CA profile in Settings > Security.

  • Local Certificate

    Select the local certificate of the AMQP server. You can configure the local certificate in Settings > Security

  • Server Common Name

    Enter the common name used while creating the server certificate.

• If you have selected Microsoft Teams notification type, enter the following information:

  • Channel

    Paste the web hook URL generated by Teams.

  To generate a web hook URL from Teams:

  1. Select the desired channel and click the ellipsis (...).

  2. Click Connectors in the displayed menu.

     

  3. Use the Incoming Webhook option and click Configure.

     

  4. Click Create.

     

  5. Once the web hook is successfully created, copy the displayed URL.

     

• If you selected EMails notification type, enter the following information:

  • Email Addresses

    Enter an email address and click Add <email-address> . You can add one or more email addresses.

  • Rule Filters

    Enter a filter and click Add <rule-filters> to define a rule filter. You can add one or more than one rule filter. Define a rule filter to narrow the scope of what triggers an email. Examples of rule filters are: interface.statistics/check-interface-flaps—sends notifications only for the rule check-interface-flaps. system.processes/.* , system.cpu/.* , and interface.statistics/.* sends notifications for all rules under the topics system.processes, system.cpu, and interface.statistics.

    Note:

    Paragon Insights includes its own mail transfer agent (MTA), so no other mail server is required.

Click Save & Deploy to save and deploy the notification.