topic VMware ESX/ESXi Log Files in Getting Data In

VMware ESX/ESXi Log Files

Michael_Schyma1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:24:52 GMT

I was wondering how everyone is collecting there VMware ESX/ESXi log files? How are you getting them from the server to the actual system? Is there an agent that can be installed, or can splunk log into VMware and pull the information?

Thank you for any information or references that can be provided.

Re: VMware ESX/ESXi Log Files

Michael_Schyma1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:30:28 GMT

http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:VMwareESXSyslog

Re: VMware ESX/ESXi Log Files

Michael_Schyma1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:31:05 GMT

This would be the correct way.

Re: VMware ESX/ESXi Log Files

roychen — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:46:46 GMT

Are the instructions in the wiki still valid for VMware ESXi 5.1?

In other words, I can just set Splunk to listen on UDP 514, then login to my ESXi host using the vSphere client, and just configure which syslog server to send to under Configuration -> Advanced Settings -> syslog?