= 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.
[[Image(Slack-try-free.png, 800px, nolink)]]

* Use your Official Email Account

[[Image(Slack-first-email.png​, 600px, nolink)]]

* Click Create a Workspace

[[Image(Create-workspace.png, 800px, nolink)]]

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

[[Image(Workspace-st1.png, 800px, nolink)]]

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

[[Image(Workspace-st2.png, 800px, nolink)]]

* Add email addresses of your other colleagues.

[[Image(Workspace-st3.png, 600px, nolink)]]

* Highly recommend to download the application.

[[Image(Download-slack.png, 800px, nolink)]]

* Once completed, you will see Monitoring Channel 
[[Image(Monitoring-Channel.png, 800px, nolink)]]




== 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.[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Create-app.png, 400px, nolink)]]
* Select Incoming Webhooks[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Incoming-webhooks.png, 400px, nolink)]]
* Activate Incoming Webhooks by making the switch to `On`[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Webhooks-activate.png, 400px, nolink)]]
* Create a new Webhook by clicking the button `Add New Webhook to Workspace`[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Add-new-webhook.png, 400px, nolink)]]
* Include Monitoring Channel to the Bot[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Allow-channel.png, 400px, nolink)]]
* 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)[[br]]
[[Image(NSM2021/Agenda/AlertsLibrenms:Copy-webhook-url.png, 500px, nolink)]]