[katello-devel] RFC: Notification system

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/14/2012 10:34 AM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:53:55AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> I see a couple of stages.
>>
>> First would be Engine X (Perhaps not in ruby) publishes an event
>> which a usr can register to. Data from the event is used to create a
>> text email which goes out.
>>
>> Second, fancier CEP (if I get 10 events in 2 minutes, send out an email).
>>
>> Third, engine can query data stores to create their own events.
>
> Ah, this is actually not so far off from something we've kicked around
> as an idea in the past, pertaining to logging and event notification. We
> liked the idea of a sort of central event daemon people can write to,
> and various applications can register webhooks or something of the sort
> to receive a notification of events matching various criteria -- so that
> Component X can ask to be notified any time an instance launches, and
> Component Y could ask to be notified of authentication failures. Adding
> email to that should be pretty easy.
>
> Bonus points for somehow integrating
> https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric/ with this.
>
> Though I'm still worried about making this too complicated. I think this
> is a good end goal, but I don't want us to be delayed from implementing
> notifications at all while we design a complex system.
>
> -- Matt
>
ACK..this is overkill for what you need, but something to keep in mind.

-- bk