EventFilterSpec

EventFilterSpec
EventFilterSpec

Event filter used to query events in the history collector database.

The client creates an event history collector with a filter specification, then retrieves the events from the event history collector.

AllOf
This class requires all of the following:
JSON Example 
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "entity": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "entity": {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "type": "string",
            "value": "string"
        },
        "recursion": "string"
    },
    "time": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "beginTime": "string",
        "endTime": "string"
    },
    "userName": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "systemUser": false,
        "userList": [
            "string"
        ]
    },
    "eventChainId": 0,
    "alarm": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "scheduledTask": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "disableFullMessage": false,
    "category": [
        "string"
    ],
    "type": [
        "string"
    ],
    "tag": [
        "string"
    ],
    "eventTypeId": [
        "string"
    ],
    "maxCount": 0
}
EventFilterSpecByEntity
entity
Optional

This option specifies a managed entity used to filter event history.

If the specified managed entity is a Folder or a ResourcePool, the query will actually be performed on the entities contained within that Folder or ResourcePool, so you cannot query for events on Folders and ResourcePools themselves this way.

EventFilterSpecByTime
time
Optional

This option specifies a time range used to filter event history.

EventFilterSpecByUsername
userName
Optional

This option specifies users used to filter event history.

integer As int32 As int32
eventChainId
Optional

The filter specification for retrieving events by chain ID.

If the property is not set, events with any chain ID are collected.

MoRefAlarm
alarm
Optional

Reference to an instance of the Alarm managed object.

MoRefScheduledTask
scheduledTask
Optional

Reference to an instance of the ScheduledTask managed object.

boolean
disableFullMessage
Optional

Flag to specify whether or not to prepare the full formatted message for each event.

If the property is not set, the collected events do not include the full formatted message.

array of string
category
Optional

This property, if set, limits the set of collected events to those associated with the specified category.

If the property is not set, events are collected regardless of their association with any category. "category" here is the same as Event.severity.

array of string
type
Optional

Deprecated as of vSphere API 4.0, use eventTypeId instead.

This property, if set, limits the set of collected events to those specified types.

If the property is not set, events are collected regardless of their types.

array of string
tag
Optional

This property, if set, limits the set of filtered events to those that have it.

If not set, or the size of it 0, the tag of an event is disregarded. A blank string indicates events without tags.

array of string
eventTypeId
Optional

This property, if set, limits the set of collected events to those specified types.

Note: if both eventTypeId and type are specified, an exception may be thrown by CreateCollectorForEvents.

The semantics of how eventTypeId matching is done is as follows:

  • If the event being collected is of type EventEx or ExtendedEvent, then we match against the eventTypeId (for EventEx) or eventId (for ExtendedEvent) member of the Event.
  • Otherwise, we match against the type of the Event itself.

If neither this property, nor type, is set, events are collected regardless of their types.

integer As int32 As int32
maxCount
Optional

This property, if set, specifies the maximum number of returned events.

If unset, the default maximum number will be used. Using this property with CreateCollectorForEvents is more efficient than a call to SetCollectorPageSize.

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