How to get a list of Critical and Major alarms using the Rest API

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

How to use the Spectrum Web Services to export a list of Critical and Major alarms from Spectrum.

Environment

Release : 10.4

Component : Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Resolution

You can use the POST alarms web service URL;

http://<OCSERVER>:<Port>/spectrum/restful/alarms

This uses the HTTP POST method and requires the following XML body. 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--

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   All rights reserved.

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   WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT
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-->

<rs:alarm-request throttlesize="10"
  xmlns:rs="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request ../../../xsd/Request.xsd ">

    <!-- 
         This xml can be posted to the Alarms URL to obtain 
         attributes on the specified alarms
      -->

  <!-- Attributes of Interest -->
  <rs:attribute-filter>
    <search-criteria xmlns="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/filter">
    <filtered-models>
     <or>
      <equals>
        <attribute id="0x11f56">
          <value>2</value>
        </attribute>
      </equals>
      <equals>
        <attribute id="0x11f56">
          <value>3</value>
        </attribute>
      </equals>
      </or>
      </filtered-models>
    </search-criteria>
  </rs:attribute-filter>
  <!-- Alarms of Interest -->

<rs:requested-attribute id="0x11f9c" />
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x1006e" />
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x12d7f" />
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x10000" />
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x11f4e"/>
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x11f56"/>
    <rs:requested-attribute id="0x12b4c"/>
</rs:alarm-request>

Additional Information

Alarm count mismatch between Spectrum OneClick Alarms tab and REST API
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=190598

REST API Alarm count mismatch Oneclick Alarm count
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=232064