select the Messaging tab for managing the Messaging account providers and accounts.

Click or to inactivate or activate the cloud account
Click to clone the specific cloud account
Click to manage different cloud account providers

To create a new Messaging Account Instance, click thebutton. To edit an existing Instance, click on an Instance row from the list.

Enter values for the fields as described in the figure below.

Note that encrypted properties are stored in Credential Store (Local or External) and can be configured using Edit button next to credential name drop down. Alternatively, you can reuse single credential for multiple properties also, in which case you should name that credential appropriately.

Selection of the Provider type dynamically prompts for properties required for that Provider.

Field Name	Required	Description
Instance Code	Yes	Short name for the Instance.
Instance Name	Yes	A long display name for the Instance.
Provider Type	Yes	Microsoft Teams and Slack are the supported Messaging Instance Types. Once the Messaging Instance is saved, this cannot be modified.
Description	Yes	A description of the Instance.
Active	Yes	Whether or not the Instance is active in the system. Defaults to "Yes".
Properties	No	If the selected provider has any properties defined, then you must set up values for those properties based on the property key definition.

Click the Save button to save the changes. Optionally click the Apply button to save the changes, but remain on the current screen until the Cancel the button is clicked.

Providers

Click to manage different cloud account providers

Out-of-the-box Providers

Slack and Microsoft Teams are the FlexDeploy out-of-the-box providers with the default properties.

To create a new cloud account provider, Click thebutton. To edit an existing provider, click on a provider row from the list.

Enter values for the fields as described in the table below. Click the Save button to save the changes.Optionally click the Apply button to save the changes, but remain on the current screen until the Cancel button is clicked.

Field Name	Required	Description
Name	Yes	Name for the account provider
Vendor Name	Yes	Vendor like Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Google etc
Description	No	A description of the provider.
Properties	No	Setup one or more property key definitions for the provider which will be used for every account created for this provider.

Default Provider Properties

Out-of-box account provider property key definition cannot be modified and will always be read-only.

Provider	Property	Type	Description
Microsoft Teams	Microsoft Teams Client ID	String	Client ID of Application from Azure portal
	Microsoft Teams Client Secret	String	Client Secret of Application from Azure portal
	Microsoft Teams Tenant ID	String	Tenant ID of Application from Azure portal
	Microsoft Teams Username	String	Username in Microsoft Teams
	Microsoft Teams Password	String	The password for provided Microsoft Teams Username
Slack	Bearer Token	String	Bearer token generated by Slack after adding app to workspace.
Slack	Bot Name	String	Sets username for the bot that sends the notification..

Creating New Property

New property cannot be added for the out-of-box default providers. New property can only be added for the custom providers.
Click to add new custom property for the custom provider property set
When adding and saving new property to the custom account provider property set,
- If the custom account provider already has one or more accounts existing
  - New property will NOT be added to the existing account automatically. It will be added for update when editing the account.
- If the custom account provider does not have any accounts
  - New property will be added to the account when it is created.

Editing Existing Property

The out-of-box default properties for the providers will always be read-only.
Custom property key definitions can only be updated.
Property can not be deleted. It can either be activated or inactivated only.
Properties updated on the account provider property set will be synced up for any existing account only when the respective account is edited.