diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementService.java b/api/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementService.java
index 3cef9faa9e0..0f540a644ca 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementService.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementService.java
@@ -497,5 +497,7 @@ public interface ManagementService {
      * @return Pair<List<? extends Host>, List<Long>> List of all Hosts in VM's cluster and list of HostIds with enough capacity
      */
     Pair<List<? extends Host>, List<Long>> listHostsForMigrationOfVM(UserVm vm, Long startIndex, Long pageSize);
+
+    String[] listEventTypes();
     
 }
diff --git a/client/tomcatconf/commands.properties.in b/client/tomcatconf/commands.properties.in
index 291d8f13df3..a6ea8e27212 100755
--- a/client/tomcatconf/commands.properties.in
+++ b/client/tomcatconf/commands.properties.in
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ listZones=com.cloud.api.commands.ListZonesByCmd;15
 
 #### events commands
 listEvents=com.cloud.api.commands.ListEventsCmd;15
+listEventTypes=com.cloud.api.commands.ListEventTypesCmd;15
 
 #### alerts commands
 listAlerts=com.cloud.api.commands.ListAlertsCmd;3
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
index 3a0434e57ff..69b46a5d6a5 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/server/ManagementServerImpl.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 package com.cloud.server;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.net.Inet6Address;
 import java.net.InetAddress;
@@ -4761,4 +4762,23 @@ public class ManagementServerImpl implements ManagementServer {
         return true;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public String[] listEventTypes(){
+        Object eventObj = new EventTypes(); 
+        Class<EventTypes> c = EventTypes.class;
+        Field[] fields = c.getDeclaredFields();
+        String[] eventTypes = new String[fields.length];
+        try {
+            int i = 0;
+            for(Field field : fields){
+                eventTypes[i++] = field.get(eventObj).toString();
+            }
+            return eventTypes;
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            s_logger.error("Error while listing Event Types", e);
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            s_logger.error("Error while listing Event Types", e);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
 }