API Guide

resource. Examples of these kinds of event are a chassis being opened, button being pressed, cable being unplugged, or threshold being
exceeded. iDRAC supports up to 20 event subscriptions.
NOTE: In this release, iDRAC supports only Alert event notifications.
If an event delivery fails, the event service of iDRAC retries delivering the failed event. The number of retries and delivery intervals can be
configured using the following attributes:
• iDRAC.RedfishEventing.DeliveryRetryAttempts
• iDRAC.RedfishEventing.DeliveryRetryIntervalInSeconds
Event delivery retry settings in RACADM
iDRAC.RedfishEventing.DeliveryRetryAttempts (Read or Write)
Description
Specifies the number of retry attempts made for Redfish event delivery
Legal values
Value ranges from 0 to 5
Default value
3
Write privilege
Configure iDRAC
iDRAC.RedfishEventing.DeliveryRetryIntervalInSeconds (Read or Write)
Description
Specifies the intervals (in seconds) of retry attempts made for Redfish event delivery
Legal values
Value ranges from 5 to 60
Default value
30
Write privilege
Configure iDRAC
Eventing operations
The Redfish event service provides the following URIs:
Table 3. Eventing operations
HTTP method type Description URI Metadata reference
GET Get detailed information about
Event Service
/redfish/v1/
EventService
EventService.xml
PATCH Property Name: ServiceEnabled
Indicates whether this service is
enabled
/redfish/v1/
EventService
EventService_v1.xml
POST Register an event notification
receiver
/redfish/v1/
EventService/
Subscriptions
EventDestination.xml
DELETE Remove a subscription
/redfish/v1/
EventService/
Subscriptions/
<Subscription ID>
EventService.xml
14 Redfish-based systems management