SLACK Setup Example

Creating a Workspace to your Institute

• If your Institute doesn't have a slack workspace and if you are the Network Admin, We suggest signing up for a Free account. Others can be added as members later.

• Use your Official Email Account

• Click Create a Workspace

• Give your Institute's name and make sure below option box is ticked.

• Type Monitoring, this will create a specific channel which can be later used for alerting

• Add email addresses of your other colleagues.

• Highly recommend to download the application.

• Once completed, you will see Monitoring Channel

Creating APP

• Go to ​https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks and follow first three steps.

• Create SLACK APP by giving an appopriate App Name, Select your workspace and by clicking Create App.
  

• Select Incoming Webhooks
  

• Activate Incoming Webhooks by making the switch to On
  

• Create a new Webhook by clicking the button Add New Webhook to Workspace
  

• Include Monitoring Channel to the Bot
  

• Once the webhook is created, copy the url to be pasted on your NMS, but make sure to keep url values a secret. (You can use the sample content to check connectivity from your console)