A very short video to accompany the blog post I made on the subject of webhooks earlier this week. This video shows how to create a slack app with webhooks enabled. It then shows how to configure VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) v1.5 to send notifications via slack when there is a status change or failure on any of the provisioned databases managed by DSM. This can be an extremely useful mechanism for administrators. Although the video only shows the slack integration steps, it is also possible to use the webhook mechanism to send alerts to ServiceNow, as well as…

In my most recent post, we looked at how to send email alerts via SMTP from VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) v1.5. In this post, we will look at how to send alert notifications using a different method, webhooks. For the purposes of this post, we will examine the steps involved in sending webhook notifications to a slack channel. However, VMware Data Services Manager v1.5 also supports the option to configure webhook notifications to ServiceNow as well as custom webhook configurations for other applications. We will begin this post by first creating a slack application, enabling the web hook features…