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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2025-10-24T14:26:11Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="962" ns="0" title="ssh client error no matching cipher" pageid="276" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-08-11T17:01:19Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="950" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="961" ns="0" title="r80 api notes" pageid="220" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-08-11T15:31:58Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="949" prev="948" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="960" ns="0" title="r80 api notes" pageid="220" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-08-11T15:30:28Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="948" prev="947" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="959" ns="0" title="r80 api notes" pageid="220" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-08-11T15:22:46Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="947" prev="911" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="958" ns="0" title="get system serial number" pageid="83" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-06-25T15:27:33Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="946" prev="944" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="957" ns="0" title="nokia - get serial number" pageid="275" type="move" action="move" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-06-25T15:26:49Z" comment="">
        <move new_ns="0" new_title="get system serial number" />
      </item>
      <item logid="956" ns="0" title="nokia - get serial number" pageid="275" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-06-25T15:26:09Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="943" prev="131" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="955" ns="0" title="cpuse deployment agent" pageid="206" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2026-03-29T02:23:11Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="942" prev="885" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="954" ns="0" title="growing root partition" pageid="187" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-25T02:21:56Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="941" prev="940" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="953" ns="0" title="growing root partition" pageid="187" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Nighthawk" timestamp="2025-10-25T02:21:23Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="940" prev="568" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>