# Notification Rules

## General

Storware Backup & Recovery allows a Notification Rules feature to create a semi-custom rule that will send notifications triggered by an event specified in a rule.\
Go to Settings on the left menu and then click on the Notification Rules button.

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### Creating new Notification Rule

To create a new rule, simply click on **Create** button. A new window will appear.

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Fill in a name for your rule, set your notification to active and add one or more conditions from a list.

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For some conditions, you will need to provide more information, for example, choose TaskType.

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The last step is to add an action with related recipients.\
Click **Add Action** button, choose **Action Type** from a list, add one or more recipients passing their email addresses.

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After an event that will trigger a notification, all recipients who have been added to the notification rule will receive an email notification.

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### Slack integration

From Storware Backup & Recovery version 5.0, there is a possibility to send notifications to the Slack channel. Follow these steps to authorize platform in your Slack workspace:

1\. Go to [this page](https://api.slack.com/apps) and create a new Slack app in the workspace where you want to post messages. Select From scratch option and Enter the **App Name** and **Workspace** in which you want to use this app.

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2\. From the Features page, toggle Activate Incoming Webhooks on. Click Add New Webhook to Workspace.

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3\. Pick a channel that the app will post to, then click Allow.

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4\. Copy the Webhook URL and use its Notification rules. Select Action Type as SLACK and paste the URL in the **Name** field.

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### Configuration of Push Notification

To configure a push notification, provide URL of endpoint address, where you want to receive notifications and add if needed custom headers that will be added to POST request with notification.\\

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Body of notification will contain two fields:

* **subject**
* **messages** - list of notification messages that have been generated base on notification policy and triggered during run of program

To check how your notification will be looking please click on button **Show preview for push notifications**

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