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Deletion of the alert is accomplished using the standard HTTP DELETE operation. To acknowledge an

alert, you can perform a PUT operation on the specific alert instance with an updated Status attribute. The

PUT operation on any other attribute will return an error.

The enumerated values for the Severity field are described in the following table.

Attribute Name

Description

Unknown

Informational

Normal Normal

Warning

Critical

2.8.1 Last Alert IDs

<BASE_URI>/Alerts/LastAlertId

This API returns the ID of the last alert inserted in the OpenManage Essentials database.

2.8.2 Alerts Since

<BASE_URI>/AlertsSince/{id}

This API returns the alerts since the identifier provided ({id}). This identifier will typically be obtained by a

call to <BASE_URI>/Alerts/LastAlertId at some time in the past.

2.9 Alert Subscriptions

Alert subscriptions provide an option to register or subscribe for alerts that match a filter. The subscription

mechanism will allow notifications of alerts to external subscribers.

The following URI can be used to perform alert subscription operations:

Alert subscriptions: <BASE_URI>/AlertSubscriptions

Operations supported

: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE

Attributes (filtering)

: Id

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