Events

Overview

An Event is a significant or meaningful change in the state of Resources associated within the OpenCloud Environment. Events can be used by monitoring systems, usage and billing systems, or any other event-driven workflow systems to discern patterns of activity. In OpenCloud an event could be a state change of virtual or physical resources, an action performed by an user (action events), or policy based events (alerts).

There are two types of events logged in the OpenCloud Event Log:

• Standard: These log the success or failure of an event and can be used to identify actions or processes that have failed.
• Long Running Action: These are created when an action is scheduled, when it starts, and when it completes. Long running synchronous and asynchronous event logs can be used to gain more information on the status of a pending job or can be used to identify an action that is hanging or has not started. The following sections provide more information on these events.

Viewing the Events Log

1. The Events Log is located at the bottom right of the main OpenCloud page.

2. To expand the Log and search the Events that have been logged, click on Events.

3. This will expand the Events Log so that it can be searched for specific Events.
4. This page allows for filtering of specific Events. Click on Active to change to Archived to see Events that have been archived.

Standard Events

1. The Events Log record three types of standard Events:
   1. INFO. This Event is generated when an action in OpenCloud has been successfully performed.
   2. WARN. This Event is generated when the following issues arise:
      1. When a network disconnect occurs while OpenCloud is monitoring a Template download.
      2. When a Template download is abandoned.
      3. When a Storage issue causes Volumes to fail over to a mirrored storage server.
   3. ERROR. This Event is generated when an operation is not successfully performed.

Long Running Action Events

1. The Events Log record three types of standard Events:
   1. INFO. This Event is generated when an action in OpenCloud has been successfully performed.
   2. WARN. This Event is generated when the following issues arise:
      1. When a network disconnect occurs while OpenCloud is monitoring a Template download.
      2. When a Template download is abandoned.
      3. When a Storage issue causes Volumes to fail over to a mirrored storage server.
   3. ERROR. This Event is generated when an operation is not successfully performed.

Archive or Delete Events

1. Events can be archived or deleted either through clicking on the Events section of the main OpenCloud menu or by going into the Events screen from the Dashboard.
2. Select the Event that should be archived or deleted by selecting it from the Events screen.
3. Two options will appear in the upper right of the screen.

4. Select Archive Events. A dialog box will appear asking for confirmation that the Event should be archived. Click OK to Archive the Event.

   

5. Select Delete Events to delete the selected Event. A dialog box will appear asking for confirmation. Click OK to delete the Event. Please note that US Signal cannot recover deleted Events.