Retrieving device log file

This tech note describes how you can retrieve log files for a device from IP Fabric’s discovery, to be consumed outside the platform.

You do this in two stages:

1. send a POST to /tables/inventory/devices with a request body like

   {
     "columns": ["hostname", "taskKey"],
     "snapshot": "$last"
   }
   

   You can (and probably would) filter that list (for example for a specific device with the hostname SWITCH01) by including a key:value pair.

   "filters": {
     "hostname": ["eq","SWITCH01"]
   }
   

   This gives you the task ID for the discovery for the device in question.

2. send a GET to /os/logs/task/XXXXXXXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXXXXXXX is the taskKey value returned in step 1 for the required network device. This returns the plain text of the log file for that device discovery.