Notifications

The SovLabs Notifications module for vRealize Automation provides an easy yet highly flexible way to send email or REST-based web service notifications based on the success or failure of machine lifecycle events.

Drive email based automation systems with minimal complexity or drive web services via REST with dynamic JSON payloads, such as ticketing or service management systems


Compatibility

VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.x
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7.x
EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) 4.x

Highlights

  • Create flexible notifications and add them to notification groups
  • Supports REST-based web services or email notifications
  • Notification email subject, body, addresses or web service address and JSON body can consist of a mix of static text and dynamic content such as vRA custom properties and/or custom logic
  • Email notifications consist of message server(s), email groups/addresses (to, cc, bcc), from address, to address, subject and body
  • REST-based notifications consist of a title and JSON body
  • Supports SSL/TLS or unencrypted communications
  • Message servers (email or REST) can be defined independently of notifications
  • Credentials for message servers (email or REST) can be defined independently and re-used among message servers

Quick Start Process

  1. Define a Notification Configuration
  2. Define a Notification Group
  3. Apply Notification Group vRA Property Group to existing blueprint
  4. Provision!