Accounts-accountNumber-dedicatedServers-serverId-ipAddresses-ipAddr-monitoring-notificationGroups-groupId-contacts:POST
From Hostway API Documentation
POST /accounts/{accountNumber}/dedicatedServers/{serverId}/ipAddresses/{ipAddr}/monitoring/notificationGroups/{groupId}/contacts
This API call is deprecated!
Create a contact
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Request
POST /accounts/{accountNumber}/dedicatedServers/{serverId}/ipAddresses/{ipAddr}/monitoring/notificationGroups/{groupId}/contacts
Request Parameters
- accountNumber - string
- serverId - string
- ipAddr - string
- groupId - string
- Id of the notification group
URI Parameters
None
Request Headers
- Authorization
- Specify the Authorization header when requesting details for an order that was already submitted. Follow the instructions for API Authentication.
- Content-Type
- Required. Set this header to
application/json; charset=UTF-8
Request Body
{ "contact": { "name": "{contact_name}", "type": "{contact_type}", "address": "{contact_address}", "onTime": {contact_ontime}, "offTime": {contact_offtime} } }
Parameters
- name - string
- Descriptive name for this contact.
- type - EMAIL/PAGER
- address - string
- Email or pager number
- onTime - int
- offTime - int
Response
Status Code
- 201 Created
- Success
- 400 Bad Request
- Invalid user input
- 401 Unauthorized
- This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required
- 404 Not Found
- The resource requested is not found
Response Body
{ "contact": { "name": "{contact_name}", "onTime": {contact_ontime}, "links": [ { "href": "{{APIBaseURL}}/accounts/{accountNumber}/dedicatedServers/{serverId}/ipAddresses/{ipAddr}/monitoring/notificationGroups/{groupId}/contacts/{contact_id}/", "rel": "self" } ], "address": "{contact_address}", "offTime": {contact_offtime}, "type": "{contact_type}", "id": {contact_id} } }
Parameters
- id - string
- Unique identifier for this contact.
- name - string
- Descriptive name for this contact.
- type - EMAIL/PAGER
- address - string
- Email or pager number
- onTime - int
- offTime - int
- links - list
- Hypermedia for this resource.
Examples
Successfully create a notification contact
Request
POST https://api.hostway.com/accounts/test-358536378/dedicatedServers/test-358536378-000001338fd091e/ipAddresses/11.22.33.44/monitoring/notificationGroups/186/contacts
{ "contact": { "name": "test_contact", "type": "EMAIL", "address": "abc@abc.com", "onTime": 50400, "offTime": 21600 } }
Response
- Created (201):
{ "contact": { "onTime": 50400, "name": "test_contact", "address": "abc@abc.com", "offTime": 21600, "type": "EMAIL", "id": 1556 }, "links": [{ "href": "{{APIBaseURL}}/accounts/test-358536378/dedicatedServers/test-358536378-000001338fd091e/ipAddresses/11.22.33.44/monitoring/notificationGroups/186/contacts/1556", "rel": "self" }] }
Failure creating a notification contact with wrong request data
Request
POST https://api.hostway.com/accounts/test-358536378/dedicatedServers/test-358536378-000001338fd091e/ipAddresses/11.22.33.44/monitoring/notificationGroups/186/contacts
{ "contact": { "name": "test_contact", "type": "EMAIL", "address": "abc.com", "onTime": 50400, "offTime": 21600 } }
Response
- Bad Request (400):
{ "badRequest": { "message": "POST data error", "code": 400, "details": { "contact.address": "Invalid email address" } } }
See also