Notifications on airgap network without email, HipChat?

Mark Montminy

We have an airgap network that we plan to install Confluence and JIRA in, server obviously.

We don't have, nor do we want to have, email on this network. However users want to leverage mentions and other notification based techniques to keep track of changes.

One solution that comes to mind is HipChat. While I've played around with HipChat notifications, they seem *different* than the email notifications. They seem to be more targeted to telling a room what's happening, vs an individual user that someone mentioned them, or modified a page they're watching, etc.

Has anyone blazed this trail before, and achieved the same type of notifications an individual gets from email, without email.

It feels like using activity feeds, and HipChat that would could get close. I'll try to emulate in my test environment, but thought I'd ask the community for advice.

Thanks.

Andy Heinzer

Hipchat is one possible solution here.   However that product is really designed to be a means to chat with other users.   Maybe that's important to you, maybe not. 

However if you don't really want to have this other chat client in your environment, then you might explore a plugin to Jira to help with notifications sans email, such as In-App & Desktop Notifications for Jira.   This can serve as a means for users that login to Jira can still see notifications directly in their browser session.

Confluence already has a native in application notification called Workbox Notifications. So it could be possible to just use these applications to handle their own notifications.