Events view

1 Introduction to events view
2 Display events
3 Filter and search for events
4 Events filter and search fields table
5 Display events that are related
6 Search for alarm events
7 Event attributes
8 Event severity table
9 Events table
10 Event streaming
11 Event reference

Introduction to events view

The Events view allows users to display information about what is happening in the platform. The events describe actions on resources and entities in the platform. The events from this view also display on the user's dashboard, and VM events display within the VM. Users can also access events through the REST API and the streaming API. Users can filter events by entity, action, date, and more.

To open the Events view, click on the events icon on the main menu bar.

Events view with event details

Click on an event to display the Event detail.

Display events

To display events:

Go to Events view: click the calendar events icon on the main menu

To add new events as they arrive

Select the Update automatically checkbox. Otherwise, you must click Refresh

To view event details in the panel below the Event list:

Double-click on an Event.

For performance reasons, the UI will only display events that occurred in the last 7 days. To display events from more than one week ago:

Click the funnel filter button and enter a start date

If the platform does not display the expected events in Events view, check with your system administrator.

Filter and search for events

To search for a specific event, use the filter tool.

Go to Events view
At the top right, click the filter button
Enter your filter criteria (see Events filter and search fields table below)
1. To filter on multiple entities and actions, select each Entity and a list of Actions, then click Add
Click Accept.

To remove the filter, click Clear at the bottom of the popup.

When an event search and filter is active, the filter button will display with a green color.

Events filter and search fields table

Event field	Description

Event field	Description
Entity	Pull-down list of entities. Select All or a specific entity
Action	Pull-down list of actions. Select the actions to display for an entity
Entity name	The name of the entity. The Name field may contain the UUID or the friendly name of the entity. For alarms, the Entity name field contains the UUID of the alarm. To filter alarm events by name, enter the friendly name of the alarm in the Message field of the filter.
Severity	Pull-down list of event severity. See Events severity table
User	The name of the user who performed the action
Enterprise	The tenant that the event occurred in
Date from	Calendar selection for start date in format `YYYY/MM/DD`. By default, the UI only displays events for the last 7 days. To display events from more than one week ago, enter a start date
Date to	Calendar selection for end date in format `YYYY/MM/DD`
Context	The platform assigns the same context ID to a group of related entities. See Filter events that are related.
Message	The message field will contain the details of the event, including the friendly name. See Events table

Display events that are related

To display all the events related to an event, filter the events by context:

On the Events list, double click on an event
From the event details view, copy the Context ID
Filter events and for Context, paste the context ID, then click Accept

Search for alarm events

To filter alarm events by name, enter the friendly name of the alarm in the Message field of the filter. Note that the Name field contains the UUID of the alarm. To display events from more than 7 days ago, enter a start date.

Event attributes

An event in the platform has the following attributes:

Attribute	Description

Attribute	Description
Entity	The system object that is the source of the event or error. For example, it could be a VIRTUAL_APPLIANCE for a group of virtual machines.
Entity name	The name of the system object that is the source of the event or error, for example, myVirtualAppliance.
Action	The action that generated the event, for example, DELETE. See Events table
Performed by	The user who performed the Action, for example, admin.
Severity	The severity of the event. Can be INFO, WARN or ERROR
Date/time	The date and time when the event was generated.
Message	Additional information about the event. For more details see Events table The traces displayed in Events view are also found in the Logs, such as catalina.out. The logs are documented in the Troubleshooting section of the Abiquo Infrastructure Guide.
Context	The identifier of a group of related events. This attribute is in the event detail but not in the event list. For example, if you undeploy a virtual appliance, the platform will create events for the undeploy of each VM, the destruction of the related hard disks, and the release of the NICs. And the platform will assign the context ID to each of these events. See Filter events that are related.

Event severity table

Events on the cloud platform are classified into three severity categories: info, warning and error.

Severity	Description

Severity	Description
INFO	General information events for the user as part of the normal use of the platform
WARNING	Warning about an abnormal situation that does not block normal use of the platform
ERROR	An error that blocks the normal use of the platform

Events table

The Events table is a reference of all the actions that you can perform on each entity and the events that occur on the platform. For example, for the Action plan entity, you can perform the Create, Modify and Delete actions, and the platform will also generate events you run an action plan and it performs action on other entities, such as VMs.

Event streaming

The Abiquo streaming API (outbound API and M module) will be removed from Abiquo 6.2. You can replace this feature using polling to obtain events from the Abiquo REST API. For more details, please contact Abiquo Customer Service

The platform streams events using the Abiquo outbound API . The format of the streamed events is described at Trace entity .