Diagnostic Manager APIs

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
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 Browse Diagnostic Log
Returns part of a log file.
POST
Diagnostic Manager Generate Log Bundles Task Deprecated
Instructs the server to generate diagnostic bundles.
POST
Diagnostic Manager Query Descriptions
Returns a list of diagnostic files for a given system.