EventHistoryCollector only shows login/logout events

[derekevn]

I am using the Event History Collector against the rootFolder with recursion option set to all. The only events I see are login and logout events. I want to see all power on/power off events, etc. Do I need to run the collector against a lower level folder or datacenter?

[admin]

As per your description, you are trying to create an event history collector with a filter specification using "EventFilterSpecByEntity", then retrieves the events from the event history collector. You are specifying "rootFolder" to be the entity by which you want to retrieve events. I found no reason for Power On/Power Off events not being list. Please try using following perl code snippet:

sub EventHistoryCollector {

my $begin;

my $mor = Vim::get_service_content()->eventManager;

my $mor_rootFolder = Vim::get_service_content()->rootFolder;

my $eventmanager_view = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $mor);

my $latestEvent = $eventmanager_view->latestEvent;

my $my_filterSpec = EventFilterSpec->new();

my $my_filterSpec ;

my $EventFilterSpecByEntity_spec ;

$EventFilterSpecByEntity_spec = EventFilterSpecByEntity->new(

recursion => "EventFilterSpecRecursionOption.all",

entity => $mor_rootFolder,

);

$my_filterSpec = EventFilterSpec->new(EventFilterSpecByEntity => $EventFilterSpecByEntity_spec);

my $eventHistoryCollector = $eventmanager_view->CreateCollectorForEvents(filter => $my_filterSpec);

my $eventHistoryCollector_view = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $eventHistoryCollector);

my @eventArray = @{$eventHistoryCollector_view->latestPage};

foreach (@eventArray){

print "Key " . $_->key . "\n";

print "Message " . $_->fullFormattedMessage . "\n";

print "User Name " . $_->userName . "\n";

print "Created Time " . $_->createdTime . "\n";

}

}

Or you can send us your code snippet so that we can debug the cause of not listing of Power On/Power Off events in event list.

[derekevn]

Sorry, I forgot to follow up on this. It is working now as expected. Not sure what I changed that got it to work, but the previous response to my query is indeed correct.

[PhilPollard]

I think it's because you need to build a recursive option object, as opposed to outright declaring it. On your EventFilterSpecByEntity object, this option:

recursion => "EventFilterSpecRecursionOption.all",

should be:

recursion => EventFilterSpecRecursionOption->new('all'),

That creates an EventFilterSpecRecursionOption MOR for the value of "all"

It took me a while to figure that one out on my own similar program. Not an obvious thing.