Enabling External Alarms

You can enable external alarms using one of the following methods:

• Using Cisco DCNM Web UI

1. From Cisco DCNM Web UI, choose Administration > DCNM Server > Server Properties.
2. Locate the alarm.enable.external property.
3. Enter the value in the field as true.

• Using REST APIs

1. Go the API documentation URL from your DCNM setup: https://<DCNM-ip>/api-docs
2. Navigate to the Alarms section.
3. Click POST > rest/alarms/enabledisableextalarm.
4. Choose the body parameter value as true from the Value drop-down list.
5. Click Try it out!.

• Using CLI

1. Log into the DCNM server using SSH.
2. Set the alarm.enable.external property to true in the server.properties file.
3. The filepath is /usr/local/cisco/dcm/fm/config/server.properties.