Created at the NANOG 70 Hackathon

Manage Maintenance

Created by Colin McIntosh & Mattijs Jonker

Overview

This is a tool used to create Google Calendar events from maintenance notification emails.

Things to know

• You need to configure a Google account that can create calendar events with OAuth2. See the directions below.
• The maintenance notification emails are read via IMAP. You'll need to configure IMAP using the instructions below.

Google Calendar access through Python

Follow steps @ https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/python

1. Enable calendar widget: http://quehow.com/how-to-enable-google-calendar-in-gmail/7881.html

2. Install Python API bindings pip install --user google-api-python-client

3. Enable calendar API and setup credentials for external access https://console.developers.google.com/start/api?id=calendar

4. Try Quickstart example n.b.: set scope to write access (i.e., "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar" without the ".readonly" suffix)