Message Source

Message Source is used to connect with 3rd-party message sources, takes over 3rd-party alarm messages, and uniformly pushes these messages to various endpoints, whereby achieving unified managements and enhancing operations and maintenance efficiencies for these alarm messages. Currently, Message Source lets you take over alarm messages of Enterprise edition storages.

To use the Message Source feature, go to Settings > Global Settings > Advanced, locate Switch for Third-Party Alarm, and set the value to true.

Create Message Source

In the navigation pane of the ZStack Private Cloud UI, choose Platform O&M > ZWatch > Message Source, On the Message Source page, click Create Message Source. On the displayed Create Message Source page, set the following parameters:

• Name: Enter a name for the message source.
• Description: Optional. Enter a description for the message source.
• Product Type: Select a product to receive alarm messages. Currently, the Enterprise edition of Ceph storage is supported.
• Login Address with token: Enter a correct third-party login address and obtain the token information from the third-party product page. The input format is http://{IP address of the third-party platform}:{port No.}/v1/alerts/?token={access token}.
• Alarm message conversion template: Converts third-party alarm messages into alarm messages on the Cloud. The Cloud provides a preconfigured conversion templates. You can customize the parameters as needed.
  The following is an example of the alarm message conversion template:

  {
      "product":"Enterprise Storage",
      "service":"Enterprise Storage",
      "message":"${resource_type + '[' + resource_name+'] ' + group + ' ' + alert_value}",
      "metric":"${resource_type + '::' + group}",
      "alertLevel":"${level == 'info' ? 'Normal' : level == 'warning' ? 'Important' : 'Emergent'}",
      "alertTime":"${create}",
      "dimensions":"{'resource_name':'${resource_name}'}",
      "dataSource":"Enterprise Storage"
  } 

You can create a message source, as shown in Figure 1.