Getting the Alerts/Events from XMC via API

[stefanrink]

Hi,

We want the events/alerts from XMC to be shown on our Icinga/PHP NOC screen but we can’t seem to find any information on how to get the data from the API.

How do you get the Alerts and Events from XMC via the API?

[M_Nees]

Hi Stefan,

can you give me some tips how are you able to integrate XMC Status Information via API calls into higher monitor platform Icinga ?

BR,

Matthias

[stefanrink]

Probably not an option; Traps/Syslog event would probably get dropped due to high UDP packet loss we are experiencing in our new SPB network. Also people need to make the events and service in XMC and Icinga and they will forget or ignore it.

Come one, when you google XMC you get all those PDF files telling it’s an open API.. So where is it? I expect something like https://developers.topdesk.com.

[Zdeněk_Pala]

You can create alarm action and the alarm action will update your NOC system through API/syslog/trap/... Instead of reading alarms from XMC (pull) you can update the NOC (push).

[stefanrink]

We use graphql to get data like the switches and endpoints and use that to fill assetmanagement and monitoring (Icinga).

XMC however has Alarms and Events and I would like to have them shown in Icinga and on our NOC page by reading the current Events / Alarms from XMC via the API.

I know we could send syslog or trap to Icinga but we would need to make sure every event and resolve has that custom handler configured.

[SamPirok]

The alarms trigger off of logs (like syslog but you can configure it to watch any log file) or traps. If you set the API to write events to a log file on the XMC server, you can configure alarms to watch that log file and trigger on user-defined text within the events. Is that what you were looking for?