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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2025-08-02T15:18:12Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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        <patrol cur="1585" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1598" ns="0" title="ansible fiortios api login failure" pageid="631" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-12-19T15:50:32Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1584" prev="1583" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1597" ns="0" title="ansible fiortios api login failure" pageid="631" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-12-19T15:48:21Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1583" prev="1582" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1596" ns="0" title="ansible fiortios api login failure" pageid="631" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-12-19T15:46:53Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1582" prev="1531" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1595" ns="0" title="openwrt guide" pageid="0" type="move" action="move" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-12-12T17:44:33Z" comment="">
        <move new_ns="0" new_title="openwrt notes" suppressedredirect="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1594" ns="0" title="openvpn TLS handshake failed" pageid="617" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-11-11T17:57:43Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1580" prev="1482" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1593" ns="0" title="view ESXi arp cache" pageid="639" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-22T18:38:47Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1579" prev="1578" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1592" ns="0" title="view ESXi arp cache" pageid="639" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-22T18:38:19Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1578" prev="1577" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1591" ns="0" title="view ESXi arp cache" pageid="639" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-22T18:38:04Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1577" prev="1576" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1590" ns="0" title="view ESXi arp cache" pageid="639" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-22T18:30:29Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1576" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>