StatusHub - Servicestatus.msu.edu - Configuring RSS Feeds for MSU Service Status

Summary

IT Services maintains a website at servicestatus.msu.edu which provides information about services and systems for MSU. This alert and maintenance information is also available through ATOM (RSS) feeds as described in this document.

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Feed URLs

Incident and scheduled maintenance information from the MSU ServiceStatus RSS (ATOM) feed is available using the following URLs:

https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/incidents
https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/maintenances

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Parameters

Parameters may be used to narrow the resulting output from the site.

  • limit
    limit the number of incidents or maintenance events you wish to view - max: 200, min: 1, default: 100
  • days_after
    limit events by date for events in future (primarily for maintenance but it will work also for incident updates) - max: 90, min: 0, default: 10
  • days_before
    limit events by date for events in the past - max: 180, min: 1, default: 90
  • group
    limit events by group based on the name of the group (Note: Only one group can be used in the filter)
  • service
    limit events by service based on the name of the service (Note: Only one service can be used in the filter)
  • group_ids
    limit events by group based on the id value of the group (Note: Multiple groups may be specified in the filter and can be used in combination with service_ids)
    • Please submit a ticket to get the group id of a specific group(s).
  • service_ids
    limit events by service based on the id value of the service (Note: Multiple services may be specified in the filter and can be used in combination with group_ids)
    • Please submit a ticket to get the service id of a specific service(s).

For example, the URL to get the last 25 incidents would be:

https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/incidents?limit=25
 
Or URL to get the incidents for Auxiliary Systems would be:
https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/incidents?service=Auxiliary%20Systems
 

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Sample Incidents Feed Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:status="https://statushub.io">
    <author>
      <name>MSU Service Status</name>
    </author>
    <category term="status" label="System status"/>
    <id>http://servicestatus.msu.edu/incidents</id>
    <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="self" href="https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/incidents"/>
    <link type="text/html" href="//msuservicestatus.statushub.io/"/>
    <title>MSU Service Status Incidents</title>
    <subtitle>List of recent incident updates for MSU Service Status hub</subtitle>
    <updated>2017-07-03T21:25:52-04:00</updated>
      <entry>
        <content></content>
        <id>http://servicestatus.msu.edu/incidents/11111/incident_updates/222222/</id>
        <link href="https://servicestatus.msu.edu//incidents/11111"/>
        <title>Incident Entry Title Here</title>
        <status:created>2017-07-04T01:25:52Z</status:created>
        <status:groups>
             <status:group>
                  <name>Group Name Here</name>
             </status:group>
        </status:groups>
        <status:id>222222</status:id>
        <status:incident-started>2017-07-03T20:12:00Z</status:incident-started>
        <status:incident-type>resolved</status:incident-type>
        <status:services>
             <status:service>
                  <name>Service Name Here</name>
                  <status>up</status>
             </status:service>
        </status:services>
        <status:start-time>2017-07-04T01:24:32Z</status:start-time>
        <updated>2017-07-04T01:25:52Z</updated>
      </entry>
</feed>

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Sample Maintenance Feed Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:status="https://statushub.io">
    <author>
      <name>MSU Service Status</name>
    </author>
    <category term="status" label="System status"/>
    <id>http://servicestatus.msu.edu/maintenances</id>
    <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="self" href="https://servicestatus.msu.edu/atom/maintenances"/>
    <link type="text/html" href="//msuservicestatus.statushub.io/"/>
    <title>MSU Service Status Incidents</title>
    <subtitle>List of recent maintenances for MSU Service Status hub</subtitle>
    <updated>2017-07-03T21:25:52-04:00</updated>
      <entry>
        <content>On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM, scheduled Network Core maintenance will take place. No service interruption is expected.</content>
        <id>http://servicestatus.msu.edu/maintenance/14127/</id>
        <link href="https://servicestatus.msu.edu//maintenances/14127"/>
        <title>Network Core Available During Scheduled Maintenance</title>
        <status:created>2017-06-29T23:45:33Z</status:created>
        <status:groups>
          <status:group>
              <name>Infrastructure</name>
          </status:group>
        </status:groups>
        <status:id>14127</status:id>
        <status:services>
            <status:service>
              <name>Networking</name>
              <status>up</status>
            </status:service>
        </status:services>
        <status:start-time>2017-07-05T10:00:00Z</status:start-time>
        <status:end-time>2017-07-05T11:00:00Z</status:end-time>
        <updated>2017-06-29T23:45:33Z</updated>
      </entry>
</feed>

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Additional Tools

The MSU Information Technology Web Application Development team has published some of the code which they used on on the D2L site. This code can be used as a basis for developing your own code for your site and can be found here: https://apps.d2l.msu.edu/statushub

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Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the new system and feeds please click this link: https://https://tdx.msu.edu/TDClient/32/Portal/Requests/ServiceCatalog and complete the form, selecting the "StatusHub" service. A ticket will be generated and routed to an analyst to further assist you.

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Article ID: 1045
Created
Sat 3/18/23 11:06 PM
Modified
Fri 9/15/23 11:55 AM

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