Bug 536210 (RHQ-585)

Summary:	Alert notification should take a more Factory/plugin-like approach
Product:	[Other] RHQ Project	Reporter:	Heiko W. Rupp <hrupp>
Component:	Alerts	Assignee:	Heiko W. Rupp <hrupp>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Sunil Kondkar <skondkar>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0.1	CC:	sdharane
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URL:	http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-585
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Fixed In Version:	2.4	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Bug Blocks:	534869, 536449

Description Heiko W. Rupp 2008-06-17 14:24:00 UTC

Ways of notification are currently relatively hard coded in the Alert Mangers and GUI. So it is not easy for customers to add their own ways of notification

We should take a more factory/plugin-like approach, where users supply a child class of AlertNotification which defines their way of delivering alerts.

The class would host two things
- methods to describe the ui requirements
- methods that do the alert sending (and some persistence of that)

So users would just need to write that class, compile it, put it "somewhere" in the server, restart the server and use their new way of sending alerts.

Comment 1 Joseph Marques 2008-07-19 20:14:45 UTC

agreed, this is a fairly important feature so that we can integrate our alerting information with all of the other sys mgmt products out there.  we need to think carefully about how to implement this correctly, specifically an API that is going to be good for customers but flexible for us in terms of backward compatibility.  as new versions of the server come out, the interface may chance slightly, and we don't want to require customers that have written these integration points to have to update all of their code.

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-11-10 21:12:26 UTC

This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-585
This bug incorporates RHQ-797

Comment 3 Heiko W. Rupp 2010-02-24 13:11:57 UTC

This has been implemented as pluggable alert senders.

Comment 4 Corey Welton 2010-03-24 03:02:07 UTC

qa -> skondkar

Comment 5 Sudhir D 2010-05-25 10:36:59 UTC

This _newFeature_ has been tested as part of testcases for pluggable alert senders.

Marking this bug as verified.

Comment 6 Corey Welton 2010-08-12 16:57:21 UTC

Mass-closure of verified bugs against JON.