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I am developing a vCenter remote plugin and would like to create some custom event types for my extension that could be displayed in the vSphere Client "Events" view. Is there a way to define a list of custom event IDs for a vCenter remote plugin at the time of plugin registration? Additional context: In the MOB interface for vCenter, each Extension within the ExtensionManger contains the following lists: eventList taskList faultList privilegeList resourceList According to the readme for the registration script in the vSphere Client SDK, there are options for populating all of the above lists except for eventList: (reference: html-client-sdk\samples\remote-plugin-sample\registration\readme.txt): The taskList.json contains task IDs and can be passed to the vCenter plugin registration tool with the --taskList argument The faultList.json contains fault IDs and can be passed to the vCenter plugin registration tool with the --faultList argument The privilegeList.json contains privilege IDs and can be passed to the vCenter plugin registration tool with the --privilegeList argument The resourceList.json contains localization information and can be passed to the vCenter plugin registration tool with the --resourceList argument So I was hoping for something where I could include an eventList.json file using an --eventList argument in the vCenter plugin registration tool, but that does not seem to be an option. Is there a recommended way for defining a set of custom events for a remote plugin? I appreciate any guidance you can provide. Thanks, Michael

We are developing a remote plug-in for the vSphere client. Within our plug-in's interface, we want to show/hide the appropriate UI elements depending on the role of the logged in vSphere user. For example, if we create new custom roles for "Example Plugin Admin" and "Example Plugin Read-Only" and assign them to vSphere users, is there a way within our remote plug-in application to determine which of these roles is assigned to the logged-in user? Also, is there a way to hide our remote plug-in menu option from the vSphere client entirely if the user does not have any of the appropriate roles assigned? The versions of vSphere client we are planning to support with this remote plug-in are 7.0 U1 and 6.7 U3. I would greatly appreciate any guidance, thanks!