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OpenManage Essentials-Specific Resource Model
36 REST API Guide–OpenManage Essentials
Alerts (sorted): <BASE_URI>/Alerts/$sort(column=<attribute name(s)>;direction=<sort direction(s)>)
Operations supported: GET, DELETE, and PUT
Attributes (filtering): Id, Severity, and Status
Attributes (sorting): Timestamp Desc (by default), Id, Severity, Status, Message, and DeviceName
The attributes associated with the alerts are described in the following table:
Attribute Name
Description
Id
The unique identifier for the alert.
Severity
The enumerated severity of the alert.
Status
The status of the alert (for example, to indicate whether the alert is acknowledged or
not).
Time
The date/time for the alert.
Message
The message corresponding to the alert.
EventCategory
The event category for the alert.
EventSource
The OpenManage Essentials alert source name for the alert.
DeviceIdentifier
The device identifier associated with the alert.
DeviceName
The name of the associated device.
SourceName
The name of the device associated with the alert when the alert was received (Note:
The device may be deleted since the alert was received and the DeviceName will
most likely be set to ‘Unknown’). If there was no device associated with the alert at
the time the alert was received, this entry displays 0.0.0.0.
DeviceType
The device type of the device initiating the alert (string, user consumable).
DeviceTypeId
The device type id of the device initiating the alert (integer).
DeviceNodeId
The specific node identifier rather than the Service Tag that is used to identify a
device such as the PowerEdge FM120x4 sled.
EnterpriseOID
The enterprise OID associated with the alert.
GenericOID
The generic OID associated with the alert.
SpecificOID
The specific OID associated with the alert.
Model
The model of the device that initiated the alert.
OS
The operating system running on the device.
Package
The service pack version.
ServiceTag
The Service Tag of the device that initiated the alert
IsIdrac
‘True’ or ‘False’. It signifies whether the device that generated the alert is an iDRAC
device.
The enumerated values for the Severity field are described in the following table:
Enum
Value
Description
1
Unknown
2
Informational
4
Normal
8
Warning
16
Critical