Your company hosts its own enterprise-wide monitoring solution. You want to receive events from Juniper Mist. How would you accomplish this task?

To send real-time event notifications from Juniper Mist to an external monitoring solution, the standard and supported method is using webhooks. A webhook is a user-defined HTTP callback that is triggered when a specific event occurs in the Mist cloud (e.g., an AP goes offline). Mist sends a POST request containing the event data in JSON format to a pre-configured URL for the external system. This allows for automated, push-based integration with third-party monitoring and alerting platforms.

A. Using the API: The API is primarily for pulling data on demand or pushing configuration, not for receiving real-time, push-based event notifications from Mist.

B. Sending an e-mail: E-mail is a notification method for human administrators, not a structured, machine-readable format suitable for integration with a monitoring solution.

D. Using a WebSocket: While WebSockets allow for real-time communication, webhooks are the specific, simpler, and officially supported "push" mechanism Mist uses for this purpose.

1. Juniper Networks, "Mist Webhooks," Juniper Mist API Documentation. The documentation states, "Webhooks are a way to get real-time information from the Mist cloud. Instead of polling the API, you can subscribe to a set of topics and get notified when events happen."

2. Juniper Mist, "Webhooks," Mist AI and Cloud, User Guide. This guide details the process: "Mist supports Webhooks as a mechanism to send event notifications to your applications... You can subscribe to alerts, audits, device events, and so on."