Using Cisco WebEx Teams API to enable ChatOps
ChatOps enables you to perform operation tasks on the infrastructure. You need an active WebEx Teams account if you have not already set one up: https://web.webex.com/ Here is a useful link on getting started with this topic if you find the Cisco documentation / training somewhat confusing, as I did: https://blog.wimwauters.com/networkprogrammability/2020-10-06_chatbot_python_local/ Basically this example shows you how to create a python application to listen for incoming messages coming from WebEx chat bot, and on receiving a message, create a new POST REST API to send a reply to the Chat Op. 1. Create a bot In the dashboard select visit help centre. Sign in, then go to https://developer.webex.com/ Click on Start building Apps: And select Create a Bot Create the bot: Copy the bot access token and store it somewhere. Save it somewhere given that this will be lost on closing the browser (though you can always generate and use a new one.) Go back into teams....