Log Insight ships as a virtual appliance. Given its single packaging model, automated deployment is easy thanks to the freely available OVF Tool. OVF Tool…
Log Insight: vSphere Integration
One of the great features of Log Insight is its tight integration with other VMware products. One of these integrations is with vSphere. I have…
Log Insight: Port Requirements
If you are in a secure environment where port requirements need to known, you may wonder what the port requirements are for Log Insight. While…
Top vBlog 2014 Voting Open!
As I am sure you heard, over the weekend voting for the Top vBlog 2014 opened! For those not familiar, the Top vBlog is a…
Generating Syslog Configurations with syslogify
As of late, I have needed to generate syslog configurations to monitors log files multiple times. A great example would be generating the syslog configurations…
vCAC remote logging
I have been spending a lot of time working with vCAC logs files as of late and what I realized is that vCAC is made…
Multiline regex gotcha
Continuing with the regex theme this week, I would like to cover a corner case with regular expression matching to be aware of. The example…
Log Insight: Regex Tutorial
Log Insight allows for powerful and complex java-based regular expression queries. The Log Insight documentation briefly touches on regular expression examples. I would like to…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 2
In part 1 of the article, I talked about a bug in ESXi when using AutoDeploy that log messages would have the hostname set to…
ESXi syslog events have localhost for hostname – Part 1
Have you ever seen ESXi syslog events that have a the hostname field set to localhost no matter how the ESXi host or the syslog…