Purpose of the LOG field

[Ed Reber]

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Can someone tell me the purpose of the LOG field when i open an event in Zenoss? I thought it was a field that you could use to populate with how we resolved an event. However, there is no way to view this field. I cannot write a report that features this field. I cannot add it as a column in Event Archive to view the field. I tried expoting the event archive as a csv file, and the LOG field does not export. Can someone tell me the purpose of this field, or let me know how to view the field in a report or in an exported file so I can setup a knowledge management report for my company.

Thanks.,
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You could use the log field to populate how you resolved an event. I have not written native Zenoss reports to troll this data, but the info is stored in the mysql database take a peek at zenoss_zep.event_summary as an example

I've never tried it, but in theory you can probably use the JSON API to fetch data.

I imagine the reason its not available as a column for display is that you can have any number of log entries linked with a single event (think an ongoing issue where you keep logging updates to it).
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Hi dpetzel,

Thank you for the reply. I have a couple of questions in response to your response. What is the zenoss_zep.event_summary? Is that a field in MySQL? or is it a field I can call up on the Zenoss GUI? Also, what is the JSON API? Is that an add on for Zenoss?

Thank you again for your response and i look forward to your answers on these questions so I can move forward on this.
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zenoss_zep is the table name, event_summary is the column (in the mysql DB)

The JSON API is the preferred method for programatically interacting with Zenoss. You can learn more about it by reviewing the JSON API Documentation: http://community.zenoss.org/community/documentation/official_documentation/api http://community.zenoss.org/community/documentation/official_documentation/api
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I would like to thank the people who participated in this post. Through researching another feature, I have learned that Zenoss only keeps data, by default, for 90 days. To keep more data would become too cumbersome for MYSQL. I am going to follow diurection given in another post, to look for a secondary program to store my data for events that have been resolved to build a Knowledge Management DB.

Thank you again for your help.
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