Acknowledge an alarm

To acknowledge and alarm, perform the following actions:

  1. Press the button in the views panel.

  2. Select "Active alarms" in the dropdown at the top left corner of the window.

  3. Press the right mouse button on the alarm, that should be acknowledged.

  4. Select the "Acknowledged" item.

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Acknowledge alarm

The acknowledged alarm will be marked with a striped background, the "Acknowledged" field will contain the timestamp and the user who acknowledged the alarm:

acknowledged alarm
Acknowledged alarm

REST API

You can acknowledge an alarm via REST API with the Acknowledge incident request.

You need an alarm ID for this request.

Request example via curl
login=<...>
password=<...>
saymon_hostname=<...>
incident_id=<...>
url=https://$saymon_hostname/node/api/incidents/$incident_id/acknowledge

curl -X POST $url -u $login:$password