REST API - POST Alert Notification Type Enable

This operation adds a notification type to an alert.

Request

Syntax

POST <webservice>/AlertRule/{alertId}/notificationType/{notifTypeId}/Action/Enable HTTP/1.1

 Host: <host name>

 Accept: application/xml

 Authtoken: <authentication token>

 Content-type: application/xml

where <webservice> is the root path used to route the API requests to the Web Server.

For more information, see Available Web Services for REST API.

Request Parameters

Name	Description	Required
alertId	The alert ID for the alert. If the alert ID is not known, use the GET Alert API to retrieve it.	Yes
notifTypeId	The notification type ID for the alert. Valid values are: 1, for email 4, for SNMP 8, for event viewer 8192, for console alerts 32768, for SCOM 2097152, for webhooks	Yes

Name

Description

Required

alertId

The alert ID for the alert. If the alert ID is not known, use the GET Alert API to retrieve it.

Yes

notifTypeId

The notification type ID for the alert.

Valid values are:

1, for email
4, for SNMP
8, for event viewer
8192, for console alerts
32768, for SCOM
2097152, for webhooks

Yes

Request Headers

Name	Description
Host	The host name of the Web Server or Web Console used in the API request.
Accept	The format of the response. Valid values are: application/xml or application/json.
Authtoken	The authentication token received after successfully logging on. For details on receiving an authentication token, see Authentication.
Content-type	The media type contained in the request body.

Response

Response Parameters

Parameter	Description	Element
errorCode	The possible error codes. Valid values are: 0, successful completion. 2, a failure. a specific error code.	CVGui_GenericResp
errorMessage	The description of the error code. Not all error codes have an error message.	CVGui_GenericResp

Parameter

Description

Element

errorCode

The possible error codes.

Valid values are:

0, successful completion.
2, a failure.
a specific error code.

CVGui_GenericResp

errorMessage

The description of the error code. Not all error codes have an error message.

CVGui_GenericResp

Examples

Sample Request

POST <webservice>/AlertRule/20/notificationType/4/Action/Enable HTTP/1.1

 Host: client.mydomain.com

 Accept: application/xml

 Authtoken: QSDK 38568012f4d1e8ee1841d283a47aa3ba78e124ea58354b5fc6

 0f4dab8a63347d05cf5552484dafda3bfa4c5db84e580b1cb37bcf8e65b39f7f

 8549a443e6f78a2c7be3f31b3d845e24776c835e498e8e883bb40c46bd15af4f

 40ca94e823acedcdd4e9659e74b34a07a85c4586cd2ed914b6dce015874783ef7

 68fda78183a4208930954a377f66eb56c8b92cexampl4s437a19317ca6ce7f323

 3d5a01aca35dbad93468b833f2cf71010809006a937670adce711ca8be46638e8

 Content-type: application/xml

Sample Response

This is the response when the notification type is enabled.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

 <CVGui_GenericResp errorCode="0" />

These are the possible responses when the alert ID in the request is not valid.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

 <CVGui_GenericResp errorMessage="Invalid Rule Id [7s]" errorCode="1" />

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

 <CVGui_GenericResp errorCode="720899" errorMessage="Alert notification not found" />

These are the possible responses when the notification type ID in the request is not valid.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

 <CVGui_GenericResp errorCode="1" errorMessage="Invalid Notif Type Id [4p]" />

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

 <CVGui_GenericResp errorCode="1241515118" errorMessage="Invalid notification type passed" />

This is the response when a user does not have the alert management capability.

<CVGui_GenericResp errorCode="99" errorMessage="User [user2] does not have required capability [Alert Management] for this CommCell and this operation." />