result of queryevents seems to be limited

[roland09]

Hi,

we use the VMWare Perl Toolkit to get the VI events. I assume that the number of events I get back is limited to about 800 events. Is it possible to change this number ?

Thank you !

Roland

[Steve_Jin]

You can use the EventHistoryCollector returned by the CreateCollectorForEvents method.

No limitation on the number of events you can get.

We have a code sample to retrieve the events. Check it from the Samples link below.

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[roland09]

Thank you Steve,

but due to special facts we can´t use the history collector. We have to use the queryevents method...

Roland

[Steve_Jin]

Hi Roland,

That would be hard, if possible. You can try to put in more conditions into the EventFilterSpecByTime. For example, you want the events in the past week. Instead of grabbing them all in a call, you divide the week into 7 days and make 7 calls. There is no guarantee since the events might concentrate one or two days.

BTW, I am a little curious about your use case that disallows use of collector. Can you share it? a private message is also OK. Thanks!

Steve JIN, VMware Engineering

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[roland09]

Danke für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bis zum 13.4.2009 nicht im Hause. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte telefonisch an unsere Zentrale unter der Rufnummer 0231-94340-0. Diese Nachricht wird nicht weitergeleitet.

[PhilPollard]

Do you know of any examples or sample code of usage of an event collector in Perl? I'm having trouble with the syntax.

[lamw]

Here is an example of vSphere SDK for Perl script utlizing the CreateCollectorForEvents -

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