ESXi 5 Syslog

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• Remove data for a downgraded ESXi host syslog collector?

  Hello

  We already put out of service an ESXi 5 host in the cluster.

  However, network Syslog Collector, the host still appears with the hostname / IP address and the size of the log (about 18 MB).

  We would like to seek your advice on how to remove this entry to ESXi host Syslog collector Page.  Should I restart the service "VMware vSphere Syslog Collector" on vCenter Server?

  Thank you

  Post edited by: TonyJK

  If the server esxi already downgraded in judgment of sate, then you can delete the syslog file (in vcenter) to as esxi. If the underwater ESXI still running, you can disable forewall port for syslog (even if you can remove the host name of the syslog setting advanced collector.)

  

• VMware ESXi 5 host stops sending the syslogs to the remote server (Splunk)

  We have recently installed a Splunk syslog server and our pointing devices are to him.   I noticed that when we stop/start the server (or service) the logs of all my ESXi 5 hosts stop coming in.

  There seems to be a known problem

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 2003127

  The next step 5 restart the newspaper that circulates.  But there is no way I want to log on to the console and run it whenever someone does something in Splunk that needs a reboot or the Windows box is restarted for patches.

  I started writing a script bash (below), but discovered that ESXi has really not an area of cron as has ESX4 (not i).  If I brute force to create it on the host, it will come off with tasks.

  # This checks if the syslog server is written on "SPLUNK" third-party syslog server

  # It will restart the syslog service if she sees that he has ceased to

  const = 'cannot write the journal. "

  If [/var/log/.vmsyslogd.err - e]; then

  /var/log/.vmsyslogd.err n 1 tail. grep "unable to write the log.

  If [$? = 0]; then

  echo '$const; Found in the LAST line, restart the syslog server.

  FI

  FI

  "I was going to cron to run every 15 minutes and if he saw the last line in the log that was stopped 'impossible to write the journal' so I would like to add a '.esxcli system syslog reload " inplace of the echo line.

  "I vCenter on a Windows machine and would like to run a scheduled task on all my hosts (perhaps a csv file) and then delivers."esxcli system syslog reload " if that is found.  I can't figure out how to do this, can anymore help me out?

  I'd like to use what I have, I don't have a vMA or splunks VM either.


  


  William Lam posted a script on how to do this on his blog site.  It is uses an alarm vCenter to alert in case of connectivity for the loghost is lost.

  virtuallyGhetto: detection of ESXi Remote Syslog connection error using a vCenter alarm

• ESXi host does not connect more after a restart of the service LogInsight

  Hello

  I put several (5.1 U1) ESXi to use the newly installed LogInsight. they sent him their event properly. I had to restart the log service Insight. After the reboot, the hosts stopped sending events. the vcenter continued, however.

  I had to reload the syslog on the hosts to send their event to the perspicacity of newspaper.

  esxcli system syslog reload

  any idea? I guess that's not normal behavior

  Thank you

  Eric

  Hi Eric, this is unfortunately expected behavior. What you are experiencing is a bug in ESXi. More information is available in the Guide to installation/Admin under the troubleshooting log Insight section or at the following article: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003127.

  ESXi newspapers stop arriving at the Insight Journal

  After you restart the log service Insight, ESXi hosts syslog messages stop arriving at the Insight Journal.

  Problem

  In Insight Journal configuration changes require that you restart the log Insight service. After the restart, syslog RSS of ESXi are no longer available.

  Cause

  Some versions of ESXi stop balls sending if connectivity to the remote syslog listener is stopped, even for a short moment. This problem affects the following versions of ESXi, depending on the communication protocol used.

• How to find the dump of the ESXi Collector and Syslog collector dump is set or not

  Hello team,

  I have 1000 ESXi hosts in our environment, I just want to confirm ESXi DUMP collector and collector dumpl Syslog is configured on all ESXi hosts or not.

  I beg you to help me with powerCLI scrip because it will save a lot of time hell and it will also help me to avoid any human error.

  In advance, I appreciate your help and your support.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Try something like this

  Get-VMHost |

  Select Name,

  @{N = "Syslog collector"; E = {}

  $script: esxcli = Get-EsxCli - VMHost $_

  $esxcli.system.syslog.config.get () | {{Select - ExpandProperty RemoteHost}},

  @{N = "Empty the collector"; E = {}

  $dump = $esxcli.system.coredump.network.get)

  {if($dump.NetworkServerIP)}

  "$($dump.NetworkServerIP):$($dump.NetworkServerPort)"} ".

  {{else {''}}}

• ESXi Syslog over TLS/SSL does not

  Hello

  I configured Log Insight (3.0) with 1 vCenter (5.5U2b) and 2 guests ESXi (5.5U2). Everything is on the same subnet.

  When I set them up with the Syslog on SSL in Insight Journal, nothing is sent. However, if I change to TCP, I start to receive data.

  What could be the problem?

  Yes, you can simply copy and paste the certificate into /etc/vmware/ssl/castore.pem PEM format. If you have several, you can concatenate the. You can

  It will not work with your current version, if. Log Insight 3.0 doesn't support SSLv3 (to stop the attack POODLE vector), but 5.5U2b ESXi predates this and requires SSLv3. You will need decommissioning at Log Insight 2.5 - or - apply a patch of ESXi. See KB 2135410 and 2135795.

  Suite is on ESXi build 3247226:

  OpenSSL s_client-connect loginsight.local:1514 < ev/null="" |="" openssl="" x509="" -outform="" pem=""> > /etc/vmware/ssl/castore.pem

  head /etc/vmware/ssl/castore.pem n 2

  -BEGIN CERTIFICATE-

  MIIFwTCCA6mgAwIBAgIEZp + XkzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADCBkDELMAkGA1UEBhMC

  esxcli system syslog configuration defined - loghost = "ssl://loginsight.local:1514."

  esxcli system syslog reload

  esxcli system syslog mark s "test message from 3247226 via the Protocol ssl 3.0 LI."

  ip to the esxcli network connection list | grep 1514

  TCP 0 0 esxihost:23351 loginsight.local:1514 ESTABLISHED 35915 newreno vmsyslogd

  And the message is received by the Insight journal.

• Configure the new SYSLOG server but two esxi sends do not log to syslog collector

  Dear team,

  I have configured the new syslog collector and even set up on 16ESXi, host 14 able to send logs to syslog new but towing host is not able to send. How to solve this problem, need your help.

  concerning

  Mr. Vmware

  -
  To resolve the reported problem need to open the port on the firewall syslog on ESXi host...

  Is the open port of ESXi firewall for syslog traffic. Open the Client vSphere, ESXi server, open the Configuration tab, select the firewall security profile and select Properties.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

• ESXi 5.1 syslogs and QRadar

  I try to have one of my hosts send syslogs to QRadar, but the instructions I find online are slightly different and seem to be for ESXi 4.1.

  That said it seems that the settings I need to change are:

  SYSLOG. OVERALL. LOGDIR - I entered: [] / scratch/log/messages

  and

  SYSLOG. OVERALL. I entered the address IP of QRadar LOGHOST - with and without: 514 appended to the end.

  But I can't seem to get the logs sent to QRadar. Anyone has experience with the 5.1 ESXi and QRadar and can provide assistance would be appreciated.

  Hello and welcome to the communities.

  Have you tried the following in SYSLOG format. OVERALL. LOGHOST?

  UDP://10.10.10.10:514

  
  

  VMware KB: Configure syslog on ESXi 5.x can also help.

• Changing setting ESXi 5.1 Syslog

  I need to change the setting syslog.global.loghost on several hosts. Is - well done via Powercli?

  Thank you

  Andy

  Yes, by using the Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration cmdlet.

  See, for example, change of VMware ESXi 5.1 Syslog settings via PowerCLI

• Syslog collector and ESXi reload syslogd workaround

  Hello

  What is the problem?

  ESXi hosts sometimes lose network connectivity and stop logging to remote syslog collector.

  Configuration details:

  2 x Windows 2008 R2 64-bit with the installed server syslog collector (stand-alone installation)

  20 x hosts ESXi 4.1 Update 1

  -10 x branches (not loaded)

  -10 x the hosts in the Cluster (community charge)

  My objective test a syslog will collect branches and others will not be for the hosts in the cluster.

  Syslog is configured like this:

  Size: 10 MB

  Rotation: 30

  Archiving will be done with the software of command-line zip (not yet implemented)

  Guests have been configured with vCLI:

  FOR /F %a IN branch.txt do vicfg - syslog.pl - server %a - username root - password PASSWORD - LOG_SERVER_IP - 514 setport setserver
  FOR /F %a IN clusters.txt do vicfg - syslog.pl - server %a - username root - password PASSWORD - LOG_SERVER_IP - 514 setport setserver

  Test with the option - see the command was performed to make sure that everything works.

  For now what I have in my mind is reload syslog collector (for example, every 15 minutes) with cron (/ var/spool/cron/crontabs/root) to execute:

  " " "" kill - HUP $(cat /var/run/syslogd.pid) ".

  Another more complicated the solution was to make a log file check script (for example, every 15 minutes) and if the file is not updated (syslog does not work) to run the script with plink + kill - HUP syslog.

  I'm open to hearing other workarounds how to detect non working server remote syslogs and fix it.

  Just to say that I have to use syslog collector. My suggestion to the client was vMA with default syslog and vMA with syslog-ng, but they want the VMware solution. Kiwi and other products was also proposed.

  Yes, if you have vCenter Server, then you can definitely catch this error which is indicated on the KB, and then perform an action that could be recharged the syslog daemon.

  The warning is now if the syslog server is actually down, reload will not help you if of course want to make sure that properly monitor you your hosts, syslog and/or networks.

• Syslog for ESXi 4.1 Server

  That you guys use for the storage of logs ESXi 4.1? I have install the syslog through vMA, but which does not meet our needs.

  any syslog guy software (s) do you recommend?

  Thanks in advance.

  We have followed the blog below and things worked fine.  We have been redirecting 63 ESXi host in a single vMA.

  http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/2010/05/28/using-VMA-as-your-ESXi-syslog-server/

• SSH and Syslog in ESXi 5

  Hello

  I enabled the syslog collector on my host ESXi 5.

  When I then enable SSH host returns the following error:

  The host of "Hostname:51" has become inaccessible. Remotelogging to this host has stopped.

  Can these two not work in tandem together?

  Thank you

  Peter.

  Simply ignore this is an informational message indicating that the host ssh has been activated for the administrator

  This message is from (i) ESX 4.X

  If you want to disable, you must stop the services on esxi 4.x

  for esxi 5 you can surprise these alerts

  1. Select the ESXi host in the inventory.
  2. Click the Configuration tab.
  3. Under the software, click Advanced settings.
  4. Click UserVars.
  5. Change the value of UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1.
  6. Click OK.

  Allocation of points for the useful and correct answer by clicking on the sub tab

• VSphere ESXi 5 - point syslogging to Kiwi SysLog Server 9.2

  We have several server ESXi 4.1 pointing to a Kiwi Syslog server v9.2.

  All point their 5 Kiwi Syslog server ESXi vSphere servers? Any help on this is appreciated.

  Can't seem to point ESXi correctly because the settings all look different.

  Thank you

  Changing the syslog settings don't automatically open Firewall ports.  You will need to go to the screen of the security profile to do so.

• What is a good set of keywords to use to monitor the syslogs ESXi?

  Hello

  I will put up my 4.1u1 ESXi servers to transfer the logs to a centralized syslog.

  If we want to monitor the syslog for questions, which will have a good value of key words, that we can use?

  Thanks in advance

  "timeout", "failed".

• ESXi 4.1 Syslog on local storage

  I recently change the location of syslog 'Scratch' to my 'local storage' destocking by entering the path ' / vmfs/volumes / < data store name > / < folder > / filename '.

  As indicated by using this KB article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1016621

  After a reboot I check once again advanced settings where I change this path seems clerk. However when I browse my local database I don't see the directories created see/var/log and do I not see the created file

  I watched the /etc/syslog.conf file and that shows me the way that I entered is committed as well

  Can anyone confirm that it is correct

  should I of created the way myself and the file?

  Establishment of a local does not create the folder. But if you set the location (and the name of the file) then create the folder ESXi will start writing to the location immediately - restart is no necessary. I also found that the/vmfs/volumes /... format does not seem to work - I use /logs/host1.log [datastore1].