Notification Service
Notifications are alerts, alarms, tasks,
and events that XCO sends to subscribers by HTTPS webhook or syslog
over RELP (Reliable Event Logging Protocol).
Overview
Notification service notifies the external entities about the events and alerts that occur on
XCO and XCO managed devices.
Device events are derived from the syslog events that are received from the devices that are
managed by XCO.
Alerts are notifications that
XCO services send for unexpected
conditions, such as the following:
- Loss of switch
connectivity
- Failure to configure the
fabric, tenant, or endpoint group (EPG) on the device
- Failure to perform operations
such as port up or port down, set speeds, and breakout mode
- Firmware download
failure
- Devices exiting maintenance
mode
- Certificate expiry, expired
alerts
- Storage threshold alerts
Task notifications are based on user-driven or timer-based operations, such as the
following:
- Registering or updating a
device
- Device timer collection
completed
- Adding devices to a fabric
- Creating, updating, or deleting a fabric
- Creating, updating, or
deleting a tenant
- Creating, updating, or deleting an endpoint
group
Alarm notifications are sent out when alarms are raised or cleared, and when severities are
updated.
Notification Methods
XCO supports two methods
of notification: HTTPS webhook and syslog (using Reliable Event Logging Protocol
[RELP] over Transport Layer Security [TLS]). The format of the notifications is the
same for both methods. You can configure one or both methods.
- Webhook
- This REST API-based method is a POST
operation. The notification payload is in the body of the HTTPS call. Use
the efa notification subscribers add-https command to
register a subscriber for this method of notification.
- Syslog over RELP
- In this client-server method,
the client initiates the connection and the server listens. In this
scenario, the client is the Notification service and the server is the
remote system where syslog is configured to work with RELP. Any external
server that is configured with RELP can be registered as a subscriber to XCO notifications.
- When RELP is configured with TLS, XCO
must be installed in secure mode. For more information, see the "XCO
Installation Modes" topic in the
ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Deployment Guide,
3.6.0
.
- Communication from SLX
devices occurs over TLS. The certificates required for SLX devices to work
with secure syslog are generated when the devices are registered.
- Use the efa notification
subscribers add-syslog-relp command to register a subscriber
for this method of notification.
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