REST - Referencing alarm filters in request

[WILLIAM BARNES]

I have heard that with 10.2 we can now utilize named filters in a REST alarm query.  I've scoured through the documentation and searched the RestfulExamples directory, but I can not figure out how I can formation the REST query.  Has anyone tried this?  If so, do you have any examples or suggestions for the syntax of the XML?

 

Example,

I have a filter under my account called "spectrum".  This filter displays only those alarms that I am interested in as a Spectrum admin for knowing the health of the Spectrum servers.

I would like to run a REST query to retrieve those alarms that match the "spectrum" filter.

 

I tried: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rs:alarm-request
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">
<rs:alarm-filter name=spectrum />
</rs:alarm-request>

But this returned all alarms.  It didn't act like it even looked at my filter.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[Widjaja Sangtoki]

Please refer to Using Alarm Resources - Post Alarm Filter 

 

You need to send a POST request, i.e. 

http://<OneClick Server IP>:<port>/spectrum/restful/alarms/filter?name=<filter name>

 

e.g. with the following XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <rs:alarm-request throttlesize="0"
 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 ">
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x10000"/> <!--Model Type Name-->
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x10001"/> <!--Model Type of Alarmed Model-->
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x10009"/> <!--Security String-->
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x1000a"/> <!--Condition-->
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x1006e"/> <!--Model Name-->
 <rs:requested-attribute id="0x11ee8"/> <!--Model Class-->
</rs:alarm-request>

[WILLIAM BARNES]

That worked great.  Thanks for the quick response.

[Aurimas Plunge]

This does not work for me. I use exactly the same XML and filter name which should return hundreds of alarms, but returns nothing:

[Erwan RAULET]

It does not work for me like aurimasp with Postman.

 

The simple request  "http://<hostname><: portnumber>/spectrum/restful/alarms/filters" produces two different answers depending on the tool used.

With Firefox:

 

With Postman:

 

[Carmelo Roman]

Not sure if this applies to you, but I was successful on my end using this article.

https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com/external/article?articleId=77691

For Spectrum 10.2.2+
Using a Webservices REST Client under String Body using application/xml, charset=UTF-8
You will not include the filtername in the URL, but it will be included in the header body instead:
 
http://<server:port>/spectrum/restful/alarms/filter
 
Webservices Post with the header info of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rs:alarm-request throttlesize="5"
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:requested-attribute id="0x1006e" />
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x129fa" />
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x11ee8" />
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x12d7f" />
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x10000"/> <!--Model Type Name-->
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x10001"/> <!--Model Type of Alarmed Model-->
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x10009"/> <!--Security String-->
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x1000a"/> <!--Condition-->
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x1006e"/> <!--Model Name-->
<rs:requested-attribute id="0x11ee8"/> <!--Model Class-->

<rs:alarm-filter name="filter_name"/>

</rs:alarm-request>