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Twitter Alert Notification plug-in configuration

The Twitter Alert Notification plug-in provides a way to send an alert notification or a "tweet" to a valid Twitter account.

 permits you to send an alert notification to a valid Twitter account that is registered with a given  user. If the user has already registered with a valid Twitter Access Key and Token Secret and has set up Twitter as part of their alert notifications, this plug-in helps send a tweet to the registered Twitter account when an Alert Notify action in a filter is called.

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The following  components are important in sending alert notifications:

  • AR System Alert Delivery Registration form—Ensure that this form contains an entry for Twitter with the plug-in name ARSYS.ALRT.TWITTER.
  • AR System Alert Twitter User Authorization form—Use this form to map a  user to a valid Twitter account. For more information about the registration process, see Twitter-User-Registration-plug-in-configuration.
  • An AR Filter with Notify action to this  user invokes this plug-in to send a tweet.

Plug-in type

Twitter Alert Notification is a Java-based Filter API plug-in.

 connectivity

The  interacts with the Twitter Alert Notification plug-in when a filter makes a call to send an alert by using the Notify action. The Twitter Alert Notification plug-in (aralerttwitterVerNum.jar—VerNum represents the version number of the release) is installed in the ARInstallationFolder\pluginsvr folder.

Configuration information

The configuration information of the Twitter Alert Notification plug-in is available in the AR System Administration: Plugin Server Configuration form.

Twitter Alert Notification plug-in configuration.png

The AR System Administration: AR System Configuration Generic UI form includes the Server-Plugin-Alias setting, which points to the correct plug-in server alias:
Server-Plugin-Alias: ARSYS.ALRT.TWITTER ARSYS.ALRT.TWITTER HOST:9999

See Updating-configuration-settings-by-using-the-AR-System-Configuration-Generic-UI-form, Configuring-Java-plug-in-servers, and Setting-plug-in-server-configuration-options.

 

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