BankruptcyWatch Webhook

Licensed users running NLS on their own database servers will need to install the BankruptcyWatch webhook on their own servers.

For hosted clients, please contact Nortridge Support to have our infrastructure team set up your webhook.

Installation

Step 1

Download and install the latest .NET 5 ASP.NET Core Runtime & Hosting Bundle for Windows.

Step 2

Copy the bankruptcywatchwebhook folder to the IIS root folder (typically C:\inetpub\wwwroot\). The bankruptcywatchwebhook folder is installed during the Nortridge Client installation and is located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Nortridge Software\NLS\bankruptcywatchwebhook.

Step 3

Open the appsettings.json file with a text editor.

The unedited file should look like this:

{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "Default": {
            "ConnectionString": "",
            "Type": ""
        }
    },
    "Logging": {
        "LogLevel": {
            "Default": "Warning"
        }
    },
    "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

For Microsoft SQL Server, add the following to the ConnectionString parameter where:

• Data Source = name of the database server;
• Initial Catalog = name of the database;
• User Id = username for the database;
• Password = password for username;

Set Type to MSSQL.

{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "Default": {
            "ConnectionString": "Data Source=SERVER_NAME; Initial Catalog=DATABASE_NAME; User Id=DATABASE_USERNAME; Password=DATABASE_PASSWORD",
            "Type": "MSSQL"
        }
    },
    "Logging": {
        "LogLevel": {
            "Default": "Warning"
        }
    },
    "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

For Oracle, add the following to the ConnectionString parameter where:

• User ID = username for the database;
• Password = password for username;
• Data Source = Oracle TNS format or TNS alias;

Set Type to ORACLE.

{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "Default": {
            "ConnectionString": "User ID=DATABASE_USERNAME; Password=DATABASE_PASSWORD; Data Source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=SERVER_NAME)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=ORACLE_SERVICE_NAME)))",
            "Type": "ORACLE"
        }
    },
    "Logging": {
        "LogLevel": {
            "Default": "Warning"
        }
    },
    "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

Save the changes.

Step 4

Open the Internet Information Service (IIS) Manager application. Right click on the Connections pane and select Add Website….

Enter the site name and specify the physical path to the bankruptcywatchwebhook folder.

Click Connect as… and specify credentials to use if needed.

Select https for Type in the Binding section.

Step 5

Go to Application Pools and select banckruptcywatchwebhook. Click Advanced Settings… and set .NET CLR Version to No Managed Code and Start Mode to AlwaysRunning.

Step 6

Open https://localhost/version in your web browser to verify that the webhook is running.

The computer running the webhook must be publicly available and accessible from the Internet. Replace localhost with the IP number or domain name of where the computer is located and check that it can be accessed from outside your network.

Step 7

Before the URL can be used in NLS, append “/BankruptcyWatch/Notifications” to the website address. The URL should now be in the form of:
https://<IIS-website-path>/BankruptcyWatch/Notifications
where <IIS-website-path> in this example is localhost.

Notification IPs

Notifications that use the message transport SMTP (email) are sent by Mailgun from their servers. All other notifications are sent from servers in the AWS cloud. The IP addresses of these servers may change in the future, but you can always find the current list of IP addresses by running the following command:

nslookup notify.bk.watch

or by using an online DNS lookup service. BankruptcyWatch notifies all of their clients each time this list changes.

Make sure that the servers you are running are able to receive incoming connections from these IP addresses.