channel-status-slackbot

A Slack Bot for monitoring the status of channels

To set up, you will need to do several things:

1. Clone this repository
2. Make a virtual environment for this project
3. Install requirements
4. Log in to slack.com and create your API token. Then set the environment variable: export SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xxx
5. Run the python utils.py. This will print out your bot ID and channel ID
6. Set these environment variables: export BOT_ID=xxx, export CHANNEL_ID=xxx
7. Tweak the startbot.py to meet your needs
8. Run python startbot.py
9. In the Slack channel you've configured, run the command to get your list: @starterbot check appservers