Hi Foreman devs, Thanks to Gail Steiger and Ohad Levy - https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4170 https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3902
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598891/21989268/91469e06-dc0a-11e6-828f-44d37183c572.png https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598891/21989267/91440f06-dc0a-11e6-8940-d1f1a100e79b.png we have now a fancy-looking notifications drawer in Foreman! It works and looks nice, and I'd recommend taking a look at both the React implementation and the Rails part as neither are complicated to understand in my opinion. Now, what's this notifications drawer useful for if we don't have any notifications? That's where you come into play: Notifications in Foreman are stored in what we call a "NotificationBlueprint", which stores the information about the notification (e.g, level, message, subject..). The blueprint should contain information about what happened and ideally how to diagnose or resolve the problem (if it's a problem) The idea is that plugins or Foreman itself will define these blueprints somwhere (via the engine, or a db seed, for example). In order to trigger them, you need to instantiate a Notification object that uses the NotificationBlueprint you defined. This Notification will store information related to the recipients (e.g: when will the notification expire, who is it meant for, etcetera). This will automatically setup the notification for consumption by users. Here's some example code: a = NotificationBlueprint.new( :group => 'Hi There', :message => "Hello, I'm back", :level => 'info', :subject => SmartProxy.first, :name => 'example', :expires_in => 1.hour ) b = Notification.new( :notification_blueprint => a, :initiator => User.find_by_login('dlobatog'), :audience => Notification::AUDIENCE_GLOBAL, ) -- What actions would you like to see as notifications in Foreman? We want the drawer to only contain important information, as to not overwhelm the user with notifications. So things like: 'host failed a puppetrun' is probably too common an event to have notifications for, but things like 'this TFTP proxy went down' or 'your RH subscription is about to expire' is a much more important notification that should show up. A cronjob could check out the health of your infrastructure to add these notifications, or ... do you have any ideas? Please reply in this thread as I'd love to see the drawer getting some use ASAP for 1.15 :) Best, -- Daniel Lobato Garcia @dLobatog blog.daniellobato.me daniellobato.me GPG: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A92D6DD38D6DE30 Keybase: https://keybase.io/elobato -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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