onlineconf-bot

onlineconf-bot is used to send OnlineConf configuration changes notifications to subscribed users using Myteam or Mattermost messengers.

Requirements

OnlineConf (onlineconf-admin) >= v3.5.0

Installation

onlineconf-bot uses MySQL database to store user subscriptions and intermediate information. The database must be created and then populated with tables using schema.sql. An address and credentials of the database must be stored in the /database parameters (see below).

The only one instance of onlineconf-bot daemon should be run simultaneously.

Two separate binaries will be built for each messenger supported, see Dockerfile for an example.

Configuration

onlineconf-bot uses OnlineConf BotAPI to retrieve notifications from OnlineConf. To add BotAPI user for onlineconf-bot the following configuration is required:

• /onlineconf/botapi/bot/onlineconf-bot - the parameter name is the username, a value is SHA256 of a password (required)
• /onlineconf/botapi/bot/onlineconf-bot/scopes = notifications (list, required)

onlineconf-bot is configured using OnlineConf itself, it reads onlineconf-bot module (/usr/local/etc/onlineconf-bot.cdb file). The module must be configured to contain the following /-separated parameters:

• database
  • base - database name (default: onlineconf_bot)
  • host - database host (required)
  • pass - database password (required)
  • user - database username (default: onlineconf_bot)
• mattermost (only used by onlineconf-mattermost-bot)
  • api-url - Mattermost API base URL (i.e. scheme and hostname)
  • ws-url - Mattermost Websocket base URL
  • token - Mattermost bot token
• myteam (only used by onlineconf-myteam-bot)
  • token - a bot token retrieved from Metabot (required)
  • url - URL of an alternative Myteam installation
• onlineconf
  • botapi
    • password - password (required)
    • url - URL of OnlineConf BotAPI (required)
    • username - username (default: onlineconf-myteam-bot)
    • wait - long polling wait time (default: 60)
  • link-url - URL of OnlineConf UI (required)
• user
  • domain - domain name appended to OnlineConf username to match the messenger account
  • map - YAML/JSON-mapping of non-standard usernames from OnlineConf to the messenger account (without domain name)

This configuration must be placed in OnlineConf under /onlineconf/module/onlineconf-bot.

The best way to achieve the described configuration on a server (or a container) where only onlineconf-bot is run is to create the following parameters:

Path	Type	Value
/onlineconf/botapi/bot/onlineconf-bot	Text	SHA256 of a password used by onlineconf-bot to connect to OnlineConf BotAPI
/onlineconf/botapi/bot/onlineconf-bot/scopes	List	notifications
/onlineconf/service/onlineconf-bot	Text	SHA256 of a password used by onlineconf-updater/onlineconf-csi-driver
/onlineconf/module	Case	key: service = onlineconf-bot value: symlink to /onlineconf/chroot/onlineconf-bot
/onlineconf/chroot/onlineconf-bot	YAML	delimiter: /
/onlineconf/chroot/onlineconf-bot/onlineconf-bot	Symlink	/onlineconf/bot
/onlineconf/bot	Null	value is Null, children must contain the module structure described above