Formatting Event Message Content
When displayed at the console,
Event
data objects are not formatted and do not provide context information. You can format an Event
message using the predefined string in the Event.fullFormattedMessage
property.You can also format an
Event
message based on contextual information. At runtime, the Event
data object is populated with values that contain information associated with the source of an event, for example, the Event
data object’s computeResource
, datacenter
, ds
, dvs
, host
, net
, and vm
properties.You can use the properties of an
Event
object with the information in the EventDescriptionEventDetail
in EventManager.description.eventInfo
to format event messages.