[ovirt-users] Event History for a VM

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Sven Achtelik <Sven.Achtelik at eps.aero> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I would need to have an Event-History of our VMs for auditing purposes that
> is able to go back until the moment the VM was created/imported. I found the
> Events Tab in the VM view and found that this is not showing everything to
> the moment of creation. Things that are important for me would be any change
> in CPUs or Host that the VM is pinned to. Are the Events stored in the
> Engine DB and can I read them in any way ? Is there a value that needs to be
> changed in order to keep all Events for a VM ?

IIUC that's AuditLogAgingThreshold (in engine-config), defaults to 30 days.
IIUC it's not designed to be extended "forever" - doing so will likely have
a significant impact on performance.

You might also want to have a look at Event Notifications:

http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Event_Notifications/

Best,

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> Thank you for helping,
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> Sven
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