Is it possible to send SW report to Slack?

Question

I know I can send alerts to slack, but I don't see the same options for actions under reports.  Is it possible to send a scheduled report to a slack channel?

RichardLetts · Answer

These are two questions...

for reports -> slack, because these can be sent out as email, simply send the report to slack using something like this:

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/206819278-Send-emails-to-Slack

for posting messages to a channel I use this perl script

c:\path-to-perl\perl.exe c:\path-to-scriptSWslack-notify.pl -p ${N=Alerting;M=Severity} -t "${N=Alerting;M=AlertMessage}" -H ${Caption} -D "${N=Alerting;M=AlertDetailsUrl}"

(note all of the arguments are parameters-- so I can reuse this action from different alerts, saving having to update lots of alerts. I simply add this action to an alert that we want posted to our slack channel.

use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use JSON;
use Getopt::Std;

#test
#my $posturl='hooks.slack.com/.../CHANNEL API KEY GOES HERE';

#netops
my $posturl='hooks.slack.com/.../CHANNEL API KEY GOES HERE';

# implement rate limiting -- no more than one messages per 5 seconds
my $ratefile ='c:\temp\slacksend.txt';
my $ratelimit = 5;

if (! -w $ratefile) {
   print "$ratefile does not exist!
";
   exit(1);
   }

#exit ASAP if the ratefile has been touched in the last $ratelimit seconds
   exit(0) if ((time - (stat($ratefile))[9]) < $ratelimit);

#touch the ratelimit file
utime(undef, undef,$ratefile);

#Parse options
my %opts;
getopts('p:t:H:D:',\%opts);

#build the payload
my $payload = {
       channel => 'testchan' ,
       username => 'Solarwinds',
       icon_emoji => ':construction:',
       text => "$opts{t}",
             };

if (($opts{p} eq 'Serious') || ($opts{p} eq 'Critical')) {
  $payload->{text} .= ' :scream: ';
  $payload->{attachments} = [
    {
      fallback => "Problem: $opts{H} $opts{S} $opts{D} }",
      color => 'danger',
      fields => [
        {
          title => 'Host',
          value => $opts{H},
          short => 'false',
        },
        {
          title => 'Detail',
          value => $opts{D},
          short => 'false',
        }
      ],                        # fields
    },                          # attachment 1
  ];
}
 else { # something unknown, just display it flat.
  $payload->{color} = 'danger';
  $payload->{text} = "$opts{t}  $opts{H} $opts{S} $opts{D}";
}

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(15);
my $req = POST("${posturl}", ['payload' => encode_json($payload)]);
my $resp = $ua->request($req);

bmallon · Answer

Excellent question. We are moving from HipChat to Slack within the next few weeks and I'd like to be able to send alerts directly to specific Slack groups.