19-14
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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Chapter
19






Using

ANM

Mobile
Using
ANM

Mobile
Guidelines
and

Restrictions
This
topics

includes

t

he

following

gui

delines

and

restrictions:


The
ANM

objects

that

you

select

for

alarm

notifications

when

configuring

an

alarm

threshold

group
must
match

objects

that

you

select

as

favorites

on

ANM

Mobile.

Alarm

threshold

groups

are
configured
at

the

virtual

context

level;

therefore,

to

receive

alarm

notifications

for

an

object

that

you
specify
as

a

favorite,

the

object

favorite

must

be

part

of

the

virtual

context

in

the

threshold

group.


The
alarms
that

ANM

Mobile

displays

depends

on

how

the

user

is

authorized

as

follows:


Locally

authorized

users—ANM

displays

only

alarms

that

are

permitted

based

on

the

domains
and
roles

assigned

to

the

user

account

(see

the

Prerequisites

for

this

topic).


Remotely

authorized

users—By

default,

ANM

does

not

send

alarm

notifications

to

remotely
authorized
user

accounts;

however,

you

can

modify

the

ANM

configuration

so

that

ANM

sends
all
alarm

notifications

to

this

user

type

regardless

of

the

domains

and

roles

assigned

to

them

(see
the
Prerequisites

for

this

topic).


From
ANM,

you

can

do

the
following:


Enable

or

di

sable

t

he

alarm

not

ification

feature,

which

al

lows

you

to

choose

when

to

transmit
alarm
notifications

to

the

ANM

Mobile

app

(see

the

“Enabling

Alarm

Notifications

on

ANM
Mobile”
section

on

pa

ge

19-15 ).


Send

a

test

alarm

notification

to

a

mobile

device

to

test

the

notification

channel

(see

the
“Displaying
Mobile

Device

Notifications

and

Testing

the

Notification

Channel”

section

on
page
18-70 ).

You

can

send

a

test

message

to

a

mo

bile

device

even

when

you

have

globally
disabled
mobile

alarm

notifications

in

ANM.
Prerequisites
The
prerequisites

for

this

topic

are

as

follows:


ANM
prerequisites:


ANM

soft

ware

Version

5.

1

or

l

ater.


Alarm

threshold

groups

are

configured

on

ANM

for

mobile

device

alarm

notifications.

For
details
about

creating

an

alarm

threshold

group,

see

the

“Configuring

Alarm

Notifications

on
ANM”
section

on

page

17-57 .


Alarm

notifications

are

enabled

globally

in

ANM.

For

details,

see

the

“Enable

Mobile
Notifications
from

ANM”

section

on

pa

ge

18-66 .


For

locally

authorized

users,

their

user

account

has

the

required

role

and

domains

associated
with
it.
Note
The
user

role

must

have
the
anm_threshold

attribute

set

at

least

to
Vi
e

w.
For
more

information,

see

the

“Managing

User

Accounts”

section

on

pa

ge

18-17 .


For

remotely

authorized

users,

the

ANM

configuration

is

modified

to

enable

ANM

to

send

these
users
alarm

notifications.

For

more

information,

see

the

“Enabling

Mobile

Device

Notifications
for
Remotely

Authorized

Users”

section

on

page

18-69 .


Mobile
device

prerequisites:


The

ANM

Mobile

app

is

l

oaded

on

your


supported

mobile

device.


ANM

objects

specified

as

favorites

on

your

mobile

device

match

the

objects

in

an

ANM

alarm
threshold
group.

For

example,

specific

real

or

virtual

servers

that

are

favorites

on

your

mobile
device
ar

e

al

so

specified

as

obj

ects

i

n

an

ANM

al

arm

threshold

group.