Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

OS Management Hub Events

Use OS Management Hub events to monitor instances to help identify and debug errors, reboots, and changes made to instances.

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Viewing Events
Note

OS Management Hub events are different from events emitted by OS Management Hub resources for the OCI Events service. For events emitted by resources, see OCI Events for OS Management Hub.

Event Types

OS Management Hub records events for the following issues.

Event Type Description
Agent

An agent event occurs when the agent on the instance:

  • Provides the service with the instance's package inventory
Known exploit detection A known exploit detection event occurs if an attacker attempts to exploit a CVE that OS Management Hub has patched.
Ksplice update

A Ksplice update events occurs when the service:

  • Applies a Ksplice kernel update
  • Applies a Ksplice userspace update
Management station

A management station events occurs when the service:

  • Sets the station configuration (such as updates to the proxy or mirror configuration)
  • Runs a mirror sync
  • Detects a change in the station's health
Reboot

When a system is rebooted using OS Management Hub, the service generates an event to reflect the status of the reboot operation. Possible statuses include:

  • Started
  • Succeeded
  • Failed
  • Succeeded after the timeout
Software update

A software update event occurs when the service:

  • Installs or removes packages
  • Applies updates
Software source

A software source event occurs when the service:

  • Creates or updates a software source
  • Attaches or detaches the software source for an instance

Listing Events

View a list of events detected on OS Management Hub instances within a particular compartment.

    1. Open the navigation menu and select Observability & Management.
    2. Under OS Management Hub, select Events.
    3. In Applied filters, select the compartment associated with the event.

    Search or filter the list

    Use the Search and Filter field to search all rows, or select an attribute to filter the list of events. For example, select the Type of event to filter by. You can also filter based on summary information, the resources affected, and when the event occurred.

    See Event Types for information on the events recorded by OS Management Hub.

  • Use the oci os-management-hub event list command and required parameters to list all events for the service or for a compartment.

    oci os-management-hub event list [OPTIONS]

    Use the oci os-management-hub event get command and required parameters to get details about an event.

    oci os-management-hub event get --event-id ocid [OPTIONS]

    Use the oci os-management-hub event get-event-content command and required parameters to get a zip file with event contents.

    oci os-management-hub event get-event-content --event-id ocid --filename name [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run the ListEvents operation to list events that match specified criteria, such as compartment, state, and event type.

Viewing Event Details

View detailed information about an event in OS Management Hub.

    1. Under OS Management Hub, select Events.
    2. In Applied filters, select the compartment associated with the event.
    3. (Optional) In the search box, select an event type to filter by.
    4. Select the summary of the event to see detailed event information.

  • Use the oci os-management-hub event get command and required parameters to get details about an event.

    oci os-management-hub event get --event-id ocid [OPTIONS]

    Use the oci os-management-hub event get-event-content command and required parameters to get a zip file with event contents.

    oci os-management-hub event get-event-content --event-id ocid --filename name [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run the GetEventContent operation to get data collected from an event.