7 Replies Latest reply on May 26, 2015 6:42 PM by Bill Robinson

Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Jason Lamarre Feb 24, 2015 3:50 PM

Greetings,

I can't find any provision for webservice callbacks or webhooks that you can register to get a return webservice call based on, say, the completion of a job or blcli. Is this correct or has anyone done this? If so can you point me to the documentation or help with an example?

Also, if this is not the appropriate method for outside automation to be triggered upon events please explain and suggest other methods.

Currently we are 8.2 but going to 8.6 as soon as the next patch is out.

Thanks very much,

Jason

1. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Bill Robinson Feb 24, 2015 4:41 PM (in response to Jason Lamarre)

so like: RESTful response types - BMC Server Automation 8.5 - BMC Documentation ?
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2. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Jason Lamarre Feb 24, 2015 5:04 PM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Thanks Bill but only sort of like that. The REST calls are limited to get anyways. But we need full functionality WebHooks: https://webhooks.pbworks.com/w/page/13385124/FrontPage

You register your url and receive a payload when some event occurs so your original caller automation can continue.
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3. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Bill Robinson Feb 24, 2015 6:29 PM (in response to Jason Lamarre)

sorry - there was a page that described but i can't find it. i think there was a way to pass a uri/url parameter to alert on.
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4. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Bill Robinson Feb 24, 2015 6:38 PM (in response to Jason Lamarre)

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/pages/releaseview.action?pageId=289443956&src=search

Asynchronous notification alternative
As an alternative to having to poll to get the completion status, you can include a notifyURL argument in the initial POST. This argument specifies a URL where the system can send the StatusResponse.

For example, you might include the following data in the POST request that executes the job:

Request:

{

    "OperationArguments":[
        {
            "name":"notifyURL",
            "type":"String",
            "value":"https://my.notification.url"}
    ]
}
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5. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Jason Lamarre Feb 26, 2015 8:55 AM (in response to Bill Robinson)

This looks to be exactly what we need. Thank you sir.
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6. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Chris Diehl May 14, 2015 10:59 AM (in response to Bill Robinson)

I'm attempting to do some testing with this. The job executes fine and returns what it's supposed to upon POSTing, but the callback to the notifyURL never happens. I don't have an SSL cert installed on this test web server, so my notifyURL is going to http. Is this my problem, or should I be looking elsewhere?
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7. Re: Registering for Webservice Webhooks or Callbacks

Bill Robinson May 26, 2015 6:42 PM (in response to Chris Diehl)

i think http will work. do you see any traffic to the http server? can the appserver otherwise communicate w/ it ?
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