(Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0)
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Document
- Overview of the Network Advisor REST API
- Getting Started
- Using the Brocade Network Advisor REST API
- Introduction
- Logging in and out
- Specifying content type
- Versioning (backward compatibility)
- Using the Topology API
- Using the SAN Fabric Discovery API
- Using the Traffic Flow API
- Using the Summary Data API
- Using the Events API
- Using the Zoning API
- Using the Historical Performance Data API
- Fibre Channel Routing
- Handling errors
- Use Cases
- API Reference
- Request and Response Schemas
- Topology
- SAN fabric discovery
- Summary data
- SummaryResponse
- StatusSummary
- AssetClassificationSummary
- NetworkObjectCountSummary
- EventsSummary
- BottleneckViolationsSummary
- OutOfRangeViolationsSummary
- PortHealthViolationsSummary
- VmViolationsSummary
- SummariesResponse
- PortsMonitorSummaryData
- MonitorDistributionData
- ProductsMonitorSummaryData
- FlowMonitorSummaryData
- Events
- Zoning
- Historical performance data
- Authentication and session management

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Events
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Event retrieval
Returns events.
You can filter the events based on the properties stated in the URI.
GET URIs
Example
Multiple filters are supported. For example, to retrieve the first 100 special trap events, use the
following URI:
http://10.24.48.103/rest/resourcegroups/All/events?startindex=0&count=100&specialEvent=true&origin=trap
Response parameters
URI Description
<BASE_URI>/resourcegroups/All/events?startindex=valu
e&count=value&sourceaddr=value&origin=value&severit
y=value&module=value&specialevent=value
Returns events.
Property Description
key The unique identifier.
severity The severity of the event.
acknowledged Indicates if the event is acknowledged.
sourceName The name of the source that triggered the event. This could be the name of the
switch or name of Network Advisor server in the case of application events.
sourceAddr The IP address of the source that triggered the event. This could be the IP
address of the source switch or IP address of Network Advisor server in the case
of application events.
lastOccurrenceHostTime The Network Advisor server timestamp when this event occurred last.
firstOccurrenceHostTime The Network Advisor server timestamp when this event occurred first.
eventCount The number of occurrences of the event. Count indicates the number of times
the same event occurred in a given ten minute window.
specialEvent Indicates whether the event is marked as a special event.
origin The event origin such as Trap, Syslog, and so on.
eventCategory The event category.
description The event description.
module The event module.
productAddress The IP address of the product from which the event has originated.
contributors The contributing factors for the event resulted due to a status change of the
switch.
nodeWwn The WWN of the product for which the event was generated.
portWwn The WWN of the port for which the event was generated.