Providers 6.2

Before you can use Alert, you must configure at least one Black Duck provider by navigating to Providers on the navigation panel. The Black Duck provider provides the source for messages and notifications to Alert that are distributed to channels in a distribution job.

Black Duck provider

The configuration of your Black Duck provider determines how your Alert instance communicates with your Black Duck server. Configure your provider as follows.

Click Black Duck > + New and complete the following for each instance that you want to configure:

1. Enabled: Select the checkbox to enable or disable this configuration.

2. Provider Configuration: Type a unique name for this provider configuration.

3. URL: Type the URL for your Black Duck server.

4. API Token: Paste in your Black Duck API token. Black Duck recommends creating a superuser for the API key. For more information on creating an API token, refer to Generating an API token in Black Duck.

5. Timeout: Specify the timeout in seconds. This determines the duration of any single Alert connection to your Black Duck server.

6. After completing your provider configuration, click Test Configuration. If the test is successful, a Test successful confirmation message displays.

7. Click Save to save the configuration or Cancel to cancel this configuration.

Managing Black Duck provider configuration table

To create, edit, or delete configurations, click Black Duck on the left navigation pane to open the Black Duck providers page.

• To create a new user, click +New, populate the fields and save.

• To delete a provider configuration, select the checkbox that represents the configuration and then click the Delete button.

• To edit a configuration, double-click the row for the user, or click the Edit icon.

• To copy a configuration, click the Copy icon for the row that you want to copy the configuration.