topic Adding vCenter logs into Splunk in Getting Data In

Adding vCenter logs into Splunk

dbutch1976 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:48:20 GMT

Hello,

We have most of our environment reporting into Splunk. This includes ESXi hosts, vCenter, Exchange 2007 and several other servers. Currently we only have the Windows Logs (System, Application, Security) reporting in. An example of our inputs.conf file on our vCenter is below:

[default]
host = vCenter

[WinEventLog:Application]
disabled=0
index=windows

[WinEventLog:Security]
disabled=0
index=windows

[WinEventLog:System]
disabled=0
index=windows

On this host I would like to start monitoring all the vCenter logs on this host and I believe I can accomplish this by simply monifying the inputs.conf file. The log files I want to monitor are all located here:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\

These log file names appear to be non-standard and subject to change. Example: (vpxd-15979.log). Is it possible to monitor the entire folder for changes? I have searched for a KB article detailing how to set this up but have come up emtpy, I doubt that I am the first person to try this.

Thanks.

Re: Adding vCenter logs into Splunk

farleymike — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:11:28 GMT

I'm not familiar with vCenter logs, but to monitor all .log file in a directory you could add the following to the inputs.conf file:

[monitor://c:\path\to\vcenter\logs\*.log]
index = vcenter
sourcetype = vcenter

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Data/Editinputs.conf

You may also want to check out the new app for VMware. I got a quick demo last week by our Splunk rep and was really impressed.

Re: Adding vCenter logs into Splunk

dbutch1976 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:55:26 GMT

That's got it working, thank you very much!

Re: Adding vCenter logs into Splunk

piebob — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:38:53 GMT

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