The event state group is a table that contains the current state of state-based events within the component. The group definition has a key that acts as a unique identifier for each row of the table. A row in the table holds information about a unique event type that is generated from a given event generation group in the component.

An example of the general structure of the event state group is:

start group
   name = "Event State"
   class = "DMTF|Event State|001"
   id = nnn
   key = nnn
       (attribute definitions here)
end group

You can also maintain the current state information for proprietary state-based events by adding more rows within this group that reference the proprietary event generation group. Refer to Event Generation Group for information on doing this using the event generation group attribute in the event state group definition.