Diagnostic Manager APIs

Provides an interface for obtaining diagnostic information on a host (e.g.

generating and retrieving support logs on the host, reading audit records). For VirtualCenter, this includes the log files for the server daemon. For an ESX Server host, this includes detailed log files for the VMkernel.

Operations

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Diagnostic Manager Browse Diagnostic Log

Returns part of a log file.

POST

Diagnostic Manager Emit Syslog Mark

Issue a "mark" to syslog and the audit trail.

POST

Diagnostic Manager Fetch Audit Records

Retrieve audit records from their storage on the specified host.

POST

Diagnostic Manager Generate Log Bundles Task

Instructs the server to generate diagnostic bundles.

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Diagnostic Manager Query Descriptions

Returns a list of diagnostic files for a given system.