Chuck Hardee
Has anyone ever created an interface program to allow IDMS databases on the mainframe to send pages via xMatters? If so, are you willing to share your code with others?
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Chuck, are you referring to the CA product? I poked around their website, but the docops entries don't seem to match to a IDMS, but they have a couple entries for mainframe. I know you're polling the audience, and possibly someone else out there has something already built, but at the very least if you have access to a curl type command, that could be used to do an HTTP POST to /trigger. Or if the application itself can do a POST, then you can throw it over to the Integration Builder and translate the payload to create an event.
Hi Travis,
Yes, I am referring to the CA product. CA already has several products that have xMatters integration, but even at that, I would have to integrate our applications with one of those other CA products. So, I want to cut out the middle man.
Right now, I have built FAX and EMAIL interfaces using TCP/IP to communicate with those servers, I suspect that xMatters is similar, I just need to know what the communication protocol is, something like what is spelled out for sending email via SMTP would be real handy.
On the other hand, if another xMatters user has already built this type of interface, and is willing to share, or at least describe, what they have, I would be a lot further along than I am now.
Chuck
Worse case scenario, if you already have an email integration, you can set up xMatters to notify based on an inbound email. This method is dated, and the developers will likely frown on me for putting it out there after they have spent so much time making the new fancy Integration Builder, and rest interface, and I am offering old school, but if that gets you started, you can make the cool integration later