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2.6 Device Logs
The following resource URI can be used to retrieve the device logs:
<DEVICE_BASE_URI>/<DEVICE_ID>/HWLogs/SEL (to retrieve the SEL logs)
OpenManage Essentials may expose Lifecycle Controller logs in the future and that would require a separate
URI construct as the attributes exposed are slightly different (for example, recommended action and detailed
description).
Operations supported: GET
The attributes associated with each log entry are represented in the following table.
Attribute Name
Description
Severity
The severity of the log message.
Date
The date and time of the message.
Message
The message associated with the HW log entry.
2.7 Alert Filters
OpenManage Essentials alert filters enable the filtering of alerts by severity, time, event category and source,
acknowledged status, and devices/device groups.
The following URI can be used to retrieve all alert filters:
<BASE_URI>/AlertFilters
Operations supported: GET
Attributes (filtering): Id, Type, and IsEnabled
Attributes (sorting): Name Asc (by default)
The attributes associated with an alert filter are described in the following table.
Attribute Name
Description
Id
The unique identifier for the filter.
Name
The name of the filter.
Type
The type of filter (for example, view filter, action filter, and so on).
IsEnabled
A flag indicating whether the filter is enabled or disabled.
IsReadOnly
A flag indicating whether the filter is read-only or editable.
To retrieve alerts associated with a specific alert filter, the following resource URI can be used: