List active alerts. severity: CRITICAL/MAJOR/MINOR. No server-side offset pagination — narrow filters to page.
AI agents call list_alerts to retrieve information from API-Central without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves alert data from the HPE Aruba Central network monitoring system. It is a read-only query operation that gathers information about active alerts filtered by severity levels (CRITICAL/MAJOR/MINOR). There are no modifications to system state, no irreversible operations, and no code execution triggered by this tool.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'list_alerts' and description 'List active alerts' with filtering options indicate data retrieval with no side effects. The function queries and returns alert information without modifying, deleting, or executing operations.
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List active alerts. severity: CRITICAL/MAJOR/MINOR. No server-side offset pagination — narrow filters to page. It is categorised as a Read tool in the API-Central MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the API-Central MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_alerts: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches API-Central. Nothing to install.
list_alerts is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the list_alerts rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for list_alerts. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
list_alerts is provided by the API-Central MCP server (secure-ssid/centralmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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