Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

Retrieving events

The Get-VIEvent cmdlet can be used to retrieve information about the events on a vCenter Server system. The syntax of the Get-VIEvent cmdlet is as follows:

Get-VIEvent [[-Entity] <VIObject[]>] [-Start <DateTime>] [-Finish
    <DateTime>] [-Username <String>] [-MaxSamples <Int32>] [-Types
    <EventCategory[]>] [-Server <VIServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

The Get-VIEvent cmdlet has no required parameters.

If you don't specify a value for the -Start, -End, and -MaxSamples parameters, the default maximum number of objects returned will be 100. If you want to specify the maximum value possible for the -MaxSamples parameter, you can use -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue). This is a .NET notation, and it is the equivalent of 2,147,483,647.

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