StatusPage Outbound (from xMatters) Integration

With this Outbound Integration, notification recipients can quickly create, update, and resolve StatusPage incidents, right from the xMatters notification!

This document details how to install and use this integration.

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Pre-Requisites

• StatusPage.io account
• Existing communication plan - Use a packaged integration from the integrations page, or build your own
• xMatters account - If you don't have one, get one!

Files

• StatusPage.js - This is the code for the Shared Library that abstracts the interactions with StatusPage to a higher level.
• OutboundResponseScript.js - This is the Outbound Response script that accepts the response from the notification recipient, inspects the response option selected, and, if necessary, makes the function calls to the StatusPage shared library to make the updates.

Installation

Get StatusPage Token

1. Log in to your StatusPage.io account as an admin user.
2. Click the username in the top right corner, and then select Manage Account.
3. On the API tab, copy the Page ID and API Key values

Add Outbound Integration

1. Log in to your xMatters instance as a user with the Developer role (or anyone with access to the target communication plan). On the Developer tab, click Edit > Integration Builder for the target communication plan.

2. Click 'Edit Endpoints', and then click Add Endpoint to add an endpoint for StatusPage; fill out the following details:

   Item	Selection
   Name	StatusPage
   Base URL	https://api.statuspage.io/v1/pages/PAGE_ID_HERE
   Where PAGE_ID_HERE should be replaced with the Page ID from StatusPage in the steps above.

3. Click Save and Close.

4. Click the Edit Constants button and Add Constant; fill out the following details to create a constant to hold the API key:

   Item	Selection
   Name	Status Page Token
   Value	API_KEY_VALUE
   Where API_KEY_VALUE is the API Key from StatusPage in the steps above.

5. Click Save Changes and Close.

6. Expand the Shared libraries section (if necessary) and click the + Add button

7. Update the name at the top from My Shared Library to StatusPage, then paste in the contents of the StatusPage.js file and hit Save.

8. Expand the Outbound Integrations section (if necessary) and click the + Add button. (We are going to add a new script here, but don't worry: this will not impact any existing scripts. You can have several outbound integrations that all run on notification response, as long as you add logic to each one to determine if they should fire.)

9. Fill out the following details in the wizard:

   Item	Selection
   Choose an action	Run a Script
   Select a form	<Choose the appropriate form>
   Select a trigger	Notification responses
   Integration name	<Form name> - Outbound Response - StatusPage.io Note The Integration name format is arbitrary, but including the form name and StatusPage.io helps fellow developers see what a script does.

10. Click Save and Open Script Editor

11. In the script editor, paste the contents of the OutboundResponseScript.js file.

12. Click Save, and then close the script editor.

13. On the Forms tab of the communication plan, click Edit > Responses for the relevant form that will handle the StatusPage response options.

14. Add the following response options with the related attributes. You can change the text displayed, but the code in the OutboundResponseScript.js file will reference the value in the Response column. If you do change the text, make sure to update the OutboundResponseScript to reflect the value in the Response column. Also note that comments (annotations) are only supported on mobile devices.

Response	Email Description	Voice Prompt	Options
Create StatusPage.io Incident	Create StatusPage.io Incident	Create StatusPage.io Incident	Record Response
Update StatusPage.io Incident with Comment	Update StatusPage.io Incident with Comment	Update StatusPage.io Incident with Comment	Record Response
Resolve StatusPage.io Incident	Resolve StatusPage.io Incident	Resolve StatusPage.io Incident	Record Response

Testing

Testing the changes will differ based on your specific communication plan, but new events will have three new response options. For example:

Display the response options

Choose to include comments

Enter comments

First, select the Create StatusPage.io Incident option to generate the incident. Then use the Update StatusPage.io Incident with Comment option to add a comment to the StatusPage incident.