Integrating Cloudflare with Xeams To Programmatically Modify DNS Records

Many features in Xeams require modifications to your DNS server. Integrating Cloudflare with Xeams makes such modifications a breeze. The following features in Xeams require TXT records in a DNS server:

• SPF
• DKIM
• DMARC
• MTA-STS
• Let's Encrypt - when using DNS for the challenge

Benefits

Consider the following scenario as an example:

• You have a domain example.com that uses Cloudflare's DNS server.
• You want Xeams to create a new DKIM keys. You go to Filter Management/DKIM and add example.com as your domain.
  
• Xeams creates a public/private key in the background and now asks you to paste your public key in your DNS server. Normally, you would have to copy/paste these values into the DNS server yourselves. However, once Cloudflare is integrated with Xeams, this step is just a click away.
  

Steps To Integrate

• Log in to your Xeams console as an administrator and click Tools/DNS Integration
• Select Cloudflare from the Available Providers and click Add Integration
• Open another tab or browser window
• Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard
• Click Account Home from the upper right-hand corner, as shown below.
  
• Select your desired domain.
• Click Get your API token from the links on the right, as shown below.
  
• Create Create Token
• Select the Edit zone DNS Template
• Select All zones from an account, as shown below.
  
• Finally, create a token.
• Switch back to the tab for Xeams and paste the newly created API Token

Handled Domains

Xeams pulls a list of domains that are handled by Cloudflare and matches them with the domains that are configured in Xeams. For example, if you have 5 domains in Xeams but only 3 are handled by Cloudflare, you will not be able to modify records for the other two domains.

If you add another domain in Xeams at a later time, click the Refresh domain list button to recreate this mapping as shown below.