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Media type object
The following objects are directly related to the mediatype API.
Media type
The media type object has the following properties.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mediatypeid | ID | ID of the media type. Property behavior: - read-only - required for update operations |
| name | string | Name of the media type. Property behavior: - required for create operations |
| type | integer | Transport used by the media type. Possible values: 0 - Email; 1 - Script; 2 - SMS; 4 - Webhook. Property behavior: - required for create operations |
| exec_path | string | For script media types exec_path contains the name of the executed script.Property behavior: - required if type is set to "Script" |
| gsm_modem | string | Serial device name of the GSM modem. Property behavior: - required if type is set to "SMS" |
| passwd | string | Authentication password. Property behavior: - supported if type is set to "Email" |
| smtp_email | string | Email address from which notifications will be sent. Property behavior: - required if type is set to "Email" |
| smtp_helo | string | SMTP HELO. Property behavior: - required if type is set to "Email" |
| smtp_server | string | SMTP server. Property behavior: - required if type is set to "Email" |
| smtp_port | integer | SMTP server port to connect to. |
| smtp_security | integer | SMTP connection security level to use. Possible values: 0 - None; 1 - STARTTLS; 2 - SSL/TLS. |
| smtp_verify_host | integer | SSL verify host for SMTP. Possible values: 0 - No; 1 - Yes. |
| smtp_verify_peer | integer | SSL verify peer for SMTP. Possible values: 0 - No; 1 - Yes. |
| smtp_authentication | integer | SMTP authentication method to use. Possible values: 0 - None; 1 - Normal password. |
| status | integer | Whether the media type is enabled. Possible values: 0 - (default) Enabled; 1 - Disabled. |
| username | string | User name. Property behavior: - supported if type is set to "Email" |
| maxsessions | integer | The maximum number of alerts that can be processed in parallel. Possible values if type is set to "SMS": (default) 1.Possible values if type is set to "Email", "Script", or "Webhook": 0-100. |
| maxattempts | integer | The maximum number of attempts to send an alert. Possible values: 1-100. Default value: 3. |
| attempt_interval | string | The interval between retry attempts. Accepts seconds and time unit with suffix. Possible values: 0-1h. Default value: 10s. |
| content_type (deprecated) |
integer | This parameter is deprecated, please use message_format instead.Message format. Possible values: 0 - plain text; 1 - (default) html. |
| message_format | integer | Message format. Possible values: 0 - plain text; 1 - (default) html. |
| script | text | Media type webhook script javascript body. |
| timeout | string | Media type webhook script timeout. Accepts seconds and time unit with suffix. Possible values: 1-60s. Default: 30s. |
| process_tags | integer | Defines should the webhook script response to be interpreted as tags and these tags should be added to associated event. Possible values: 0 - (default) Ignore webhook script response; 1 - Process webhook script response as tags. |
| show_event_menu | integer | Show media type entry in problem.get and event.get property urls.Possible values: 0 - (default) Do not add urls entry;1 - Add media type to urls property. |
| event_menu_url | string | Define url property of media type entry in urls property of problem.get and event.get. |
| event_menu_name | string | Define name property of media type entry in urls property of problem.get and event.get. |
| parameters | array | Array of webhook or script input parameters. |
| description | text | Media type description. |
Webhook parameters
Parameters passed to a webhook script when it is being called have the following properties.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | Parameter name. Property behavior: - required |
| value | string | Parameter value, supports macros. Supported macros are described on the Supported macros page. |
Script parameters
Parameters passed to a script when it is being called have the following properties.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sortorder | integer | The order in which the parameters will be passed to the script as command-line arguments, starting with 0 as the first one. Property behavior: - required |
| value | string | Parameter value, supports macros. Supported macros are described on the Supported macros page. |
Message template
The message template object defines a template that will be used as a default message for action operations to send a notification. It has the following properties.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| eventsource | integer | Event source. Possible values: 0 - triggers; 1 - discovery; 2 - autoregistration; 3 - internal; 4 - services. Property behavior: - required |
| recovery | integer | Operation mode. Possible values: 0 - operations; 1 - recovery operations; 2 - update operations. Property behavior: - required |
| subject | string | Message subject. |
| message | string | Message text. |