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Chapter 7. Configuring notifications for inventory events
The Inventory service triggers three types of events:
- New system registered
- System deleted
- Validation error
The New system registered and System deleted events trigger when you register a new system in inventory, or when a system is removed from inventory (either manually or when it becomes stale and Insights automatically removes it).
Validation error events trigger when data in a payload from insights-client is not valid (corrupted data, incorrect values, or other issues). The validation process follows these steps:
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insights-clientruns on the system and generates a payload. -
insights-clientuploads the payload to the Hybrid Cloud Console. - The Hybrid Cloud Console receives the payload and validates it. The validation event triggers at this step. A validation error means that the payload cannot be processed, and that the console and Insights services cannot use its data.
You can configure notifications for these events using the Notifications service in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. The Notifications service enables you to configure responses to these events for your account. You can send email notifications to groups of users, or you can forward events to third-party applications, such as Splunk, ServiceNow, Event-Driven Ansible, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Google Chat. You can also forward notifications, using a generic webhook with the Integrations service.
To receive Notifications emails, users must subscribe to email notifications in their user preferences. Users may choose to receive each email notification individually, or they may subscribe to a daily digest email. For more information, refer to Configuring user preferences for email notifications.
The New system registered and System deleted events are particularly useful for driving automation, and for integrating Red Hat Insights into your operational workflows. For example, you can configure these events to automatically launch compliance or malware checks, validate systems assignments to Workspaces, update external CMDB records, or continuously monitor your RHEL environment.
7.1. Setting up organization notifications for inventory events
Make sure that you configure third-party system integrations in the Hybrid Cloud Console, as well as any behavior groups that should receive inventory notifications. For more information about third-party system integrations, refer to Integrating the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console with third-party applications.
Prerequisites
- You are logged in to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as a Notifications Administrator.
Procedure
Navigate to Settings > Notifications > Configure Events.
- In the Configuration tab, select the Service filter.
- Click Filter by service, and then select Inventory from the drop-down list. The inventory events appear in the list of events.
- Select the event type you want to configure (for example, New system registered).
- To configure the event type, click the Edit (pencil) icon at the far right of the event type. A drop-down list displays with the list of available behavior groups configured in your organization.
- Select the checkboxes next to the behavior groups you want to configure for the Inventory event type.
- When you have finished selecting behavior groups, click the checkmark next to the list of behavior groups to save your selections.
Additional resources
For more information about behavior groups, refer to Configuring notifications on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
7.2. Setting up user email notifications for inventory events
Make sure to configure email preferences for each user to receive email notifications. For more information about how to set up user preferences, refer to Configuring user preferences for email notifications.
Prerequisites
- You are a member of a user group that receives email notifications as part of a behavior group.
- The behavior group is configured to trigger email notifications for your systems and to send those notifications to the user group to which you belong.
Procedure
Navigate to Settings > Notifications > Notification Preferences.
- Select Inventory from the list of services. The list of available notifications for Inventory displays.
- Click the checkbox next to each type of notification you want to receive, or click Select All to receive all notifications for all Inventory events.
- Click Save.
Configuring instant notifications might result in a large volume of email messages.
