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Chapter 19 Managing Tasks, Events, and Alarms
VirtualCenterstopsprogressonthetask,returnstheobjectstotheirprevious
states,anddisplaysthetaskascanceled.
Managing Events
AneventisanyactionthatisofinteresttotheVirtualCenterServerortheESXServer.
Eacheventtriggersaneventmessage.Alleventmessagesarearchivedonthe
VirtualCenterServer’sdatabase.Vieweventmessagesfromtw olocations:
 TheEventsoptioninthenavigationbardisplaysalleventsthathaveoccurredon
theVirtualCenterServer. 
 AnEventstabforanyobjectundertheInventorybutton.TheseEventstablistings
showonlytheeventsthat occurredonortotheselecteddatacenter,host,orvirtual
machine.
Themostrecenteventsappearattheendofascrollablelist.Messagesareidentifiedby
type:Information,Error,orWarning.
Messagesarealsocolor‐coded.Ashortenedevent
messageappearsinthedescriptionportionofthepanel.Amoredetailedversionofa
selectedeventmessageappearsintheEventDetailsportionofthepanel.Typically,the
EventDetailentryindicatesthehostorvirtualmachineonwhichtheevent
occurred
anddescribestheactionthatoccurred.Theobjectoftheev entisalinktotheobject’s
individualeventpage.
Thissectioncontainsthefollowing:
 “ViewingAllEventMessages”onpage 308
 “ViewingSelectedEventMessages”onpage 309
 “SortingandFilteringEventMessages”onpage 310
 “ExportingEventMessages”onpage 311