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14.Dd August 28, 2021
15.Dt SYSEVENTS 3SYSEVENT
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm sysevents
19.Nd list of system events generated by the platform
20.Sh SYNOPSIS
21.In sys/sysevent/eventdefs.h
22.Sh DESCRIPTION
23System events are events that are generated by the operating system to
24indicate that something has occurred that may be of interest to user
25land.
26These notifications are asynchronous from the event themselves and
27depending on the event, may be lossy.
28That is, the kernel may opt not to generate an event in the face of
29memory pressure.
30Currently, every generated event should make it to consumers.
31.Pp
32Events are broken into classes such as ZFS, FMA, PCIe, and others.
33Classes are further broken down into subclasses.
34Specific events may also have more detailed payload which is available
35as name-value pairs.
36For more information on subscribing to events, classes, and payloads,
37please see
38.Xr sysevent_subscribe_event 3SYSEVENT ,
39.Xr sysevent_get_attr_list 3SYSEVENT ,
40and
41.Xr libnvpair 3LIB .
42.Pp
43Most system events are currently logged to the FMA information log which
44can be retrieved with the
45.Ar -I
46option to the
47.Xr fmdump 8
48command.
49.Sh EVENTS
50This section contains a list of some of the events that are generated by
51the system, but it is not exhaustive.
52The names of events are macros that the system provides.
53The payload member name is generally a macro and its corresponding type
54is provided, along with a brief description.
55Unless otherwise noted, it should be assumed that the event and its
56payload is private to the system and may change at any time.
57.Pp
58The following events belong to the class
59.Dv EC_DATALINK :
60.Bl -tag -width Dv
61.It Dv ESC_DATALINK_LINK_STATE
62This event fires any time a data link
63.Pq see Xr dladm 8
64changes its state.
65This may occur because a physical cable was inserted or removed from a
66network adapter or because something has changed on a virtual adapter
67such as a VNIC.
68The event has the following payload:
69.Bl -tag -width Dv
70.It Dv DATALINK_EV_LINK_NAME - String
71Indicates the name of the data link that had the event.
72.It Dv DATALINK_EV_LINK_ID - int32
73Indicates the data link's logical ID that is used by the kernel.
74.It Dv DATALINK_EV_ZONE_ID - int32
75Indicates the ID of the zone that the data link belongs to.
76.El
77.El
78.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
79While the library interface in
80.Xr libsysevent 3LIB
81is committed, unless otherwise indicated the events, classes, their
82payloads, are private and subject to change at any time.
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr libnvpair 3LIB ,
85.Xr libsysevent 3LIB ,
86.Xr sysevent_get_attr_list 3SYSEVENT ,
87.Xr sysevent_subscribe_event 3SYSEVENT
88