On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:07 AM Jorick Astrego <jorick@netbulae.eu> wrote:

Hi,

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(annoying you cannot copy the text from the events view)



I don't know if I understood correctly your concern, but in my case if I go in Hosts --> Events 
and double click on a line I have a pop-up window named "Event Details" where I can copy  and paste "ID" "Time" and "Message" fields' values.
Not so friendly but it works

I don't know if from the Rest API you can also filter the kind of events to display, but at least you can do something like:

curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/xml" -u $(cat ident_file ) --cacert /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem https://engine_fqdn:443/ovirt-engine/api/events | grep description


HIH,
Gianluca