code: def get_dev_alarms(auth, url, devid=None, devip=None):
      
      # checks to see if the imc credentials are already available
      if devip is not None:
          devid = get_dev_details(devip, auth, url)['id']
      f_url = url + "/imcrs/fault/alarm?operatorName=admin&deviceId=" + \
                          str(devid) + "&desc=false"
      response = requests.get(f_url, auth=auth, headers=HEADERS)
      try:
          if response.status_code == 200:
              dev_alarm = (json.loads(response.text))
              if 'alarm' in dev_alarm:
                  return dev_alarm['alarm']
              else:
                  return "Device has no alarms"
      except requests.exceptions.RequestException as error:
          return "Error:\n" + str(error) + ' get_dev_alarms: An Error has occured'
docs: function takes the devId of a specific device and issues a RESTFUL call to get the current
      alarms for the target device.
  
      :param devid: int or str value of the target device
  
      :param devip: str of ipv4 address of the target device
  
      :param auth: requests auth object #usually auth.creds from auth pyhpeimc.auth.class
  
      :param url: base url of IMC RS interface #usually auth.url from pyhpeimc.auth.authclass
  
      :return:list of dictionaries containing the alarms for this device
  
      :rtype: list
  
      >>> from pyhpeimc.auth import *
  
      >>> from pyhpeimc.plat.alarms import *
  
      >>> auth = IMCAuth("http://", "10.101.0.203", "8080", "admin", "admin")
  
      >>> dev_alarms = get_dev_alarms(auth.creds, auth.url, devip='10.101.0.221')
  
      >>> assert 'ackStatus' in dev_alarms[0]