diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/RebootRouterCmd.java b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/RebootRouterCmd.java
index 3180e8ac691..6d6cd5df900 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/RebootRouterCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/RebootRouterCmd.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import com.cloud.exception.InsufficientCapacityException;
 import com.cloud.exception.ResourceUnavailableException;
 import com.cloud.network.router.VirtualRouter;
 import com.cloud.user.Account;
+import com.cloud.user.UserContext;
 
 @Implementation(description="Starts a router.", responseObject=DomainRouterResponse.class)
 public class RebootRouterCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ public class RebootRouterCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
     
     @Override
     public void execute() throws ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException{
+        UserContext.current().setEventDetails("Router Id: "+getId());
         VirtualRouter result = _routerService.rebootRouter(this.getId(), true);
         if (result != null){
             DomainRouterResponse response = _responseGenerator.createDomainRouterResponse(result);
diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StartRouterCmd.java b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StartRouterCmd.java
index 12468d8d9a9..a05197d8b29 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StartRouterCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StartRouterCmd.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import com.cloud.exception.InsufficientCapacityException;
 import com.cloud.exception.ResourceUnavailableException;
 import com.cloud.network.router.VirtualRouter;
 import com.cloud.user.Account;
+import com.cloud.user.UserContext;
 
 
 @Implementation(responseObject=DomainRouterResponse.class, description="Starts a router.")
@@ -100,7 +101,8 @@ public class StartRouterCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
 	
     @Override
     public void execute() throws ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException{
-        VirtualRouter result = _routerService.startRouter(this.getId(), true);
+        UserContext.current().setEventDetails("Router Id: "+getId());
+        VirtualRouter result = _routerService.startRouter(this);
         if (result != null){
             DomainRouterResponse routerResponse = _responseGenerator.createDomainRouterResponse(result);
             routerResponse.setResponseName(getCommandName());
diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StopRouterCmd.java b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StopRouterCmd.java
index 4a82d7177f4..b6dde691463 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StopRouterCmd.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/api/commands/StopRouterCmd.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import com.cloud.exception.ConcurrentOperationException;
 import com.cloud.exception.ResourceUnavailableException;
 import com.cloud.network.router.VirtualRouter;
 import com.cloud.user.Account;
+import com.cloud.user.UserContext;
 
 @Implementation(description = "Stops a router.", responseObject = DomainRouterResponse.class)
 public class StopRouterCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ public class StopRouterCmd extends BaseAsyncCmd {
 
     @Override
     public void execute() throws ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException {
+        UserContext.current().setEventDetails("Router Id: "+getId());
         VirtualRouter result = _routerService.stopRouter(getId(), isForced());
         if (result != null) {
             DomainRouterResponse response = _responseGenerator.createDomainRouterResponse(result);
diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/network/VirtualNetworkApplianceService.java b/api/src/com/cloud/network/VirtualNetworkApplianceService.java
index e1d137b4076..05811c4d342 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/network/VirtualNetworkApplianceService.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/network/VirtualNetworkApplianceService.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package com.cloud.network;
 
+import com.cloud.api.commands.StartRouterCmd;
 import com.cloud.api.commands.UpgradeRouterCmd;
 import com.cloud.exception.ConcurrentOperationException;
 import com.cloud.exception.InsufficientCapacityException;
@@ -49,5 +50,7 @@ public interface VirtualNetworkApplianceService{
      * @throws ConcurrentOperationException 
      */
     VirtualRouter stopRouter(long routerId, boolean forced) throws ResourceUnavailableException, ConcurrentOperationException;
+
+    VirtualRouter startRouter(StartRouterCmd cmd) throws ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException, ConcurrentOperationException;
     
 }
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
index 08fabcd3376..1a5cd9f5538 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/network/router/VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ import com.cloud.agent.api.to.PortForwardingRuleTO;
 import com.cloud.agent.api.to.StaticNatRuleTO;
 import com.cloud.agent.manager.Commands;
 import com.cloud.alert.AlertManager;
+import com.cloud.api.commands.StartRouterCmd;
 import com.cloud.api.commands.UpgradeRouterCmd;
 import com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManager;
 import com.cloud.capacity.dao.CapacityDao;
@@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ import com.cloud.dc.dao.VlanDao;
 import com.cloud.deploy.DataCenterDeployment;
 import com.cloud.deploy.DeployDestination;
 import com.cloud.domain.dao.DomainDao;
+import com.cloud.event.ActionEvent;
+import com.cloud.event.EventTypes;
 import com.cloud.event.dao.EventDao;
 import com.cloud.exception.AgentUnavailableException;
 import com.cloud.exception.ConcurrentOperationException;
@@ -414,7 +417,7 @@ public class VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl implements VirtualNetworkApplian
         return result;
     }
 
-    @Override
+    @Override @ActionEvent(eventType = EventTypes.EVENT_ROUTER_STOP, eventDescription = "stopping router Vm", async = true)
     public VirtualRouter stopRouter(long routerId, boolean forced) throws ResourceUnavailableException, ConcurrentOperationException {
         UserContext context = UserContext.current();
         Account account = context.getCaller();
@@ -499,7 +502,7 @@ public class VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl implements VirtualNetworkApplian
         return true;
     }
 
-    @Override
+    @Override @ActionEvent(eventType = EventTypes.EVENT_ROUTER_REBOOT, eventDescription = "rebooting router Vm", async = true)
     public VirtualRouter rebootRouter(long routerId, boolean restartNetwork) throws ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException {
         Account caller = UserContext.current().getCaller();
 
@@ -1518,6 +1521,11 @@ public class VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl implements VirtualNetworkApplian
         return _routerDao.findById(VirtualMachineName.getRouterId(name));
     }
 
+    @Override @ActionEvent(eventType = EventTypes.EVENT_ROUTER_START, eventDescription = "starting router Vm", async = true)
+    public VirtualRouter startRouter(StartRouterCmd cmd) throws ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException, ConcurrentOperationException{
+        return startRouter(cmd.getId(), true);
+    }
+    
     @Override
     public VirtualRouter startRouter(long routerId, boolean restartNetwork) throws ResourceUnavailableException, InsufficientCapacityException, ConcurrentOperationException {
         Account account = UserContext.current().getCaller();