When architecting any syslog solution several things need to be taken into consideration. Outside of requirements, I would like to discuss some of the technical…
Log Insight: Remote Syslog Architectures
When architecting a syslog solution, it is important to understand the requirements both from a business and a product perspective. I would like to discuss…
Configure Remote Syslog on VMware Products
Many VMware products offer remote syslog functionality, but some do not include all the logs that you may care about. In addition, some VMware products…
Configuring Remote Syslog on vSphere Using vCenter Log Insight
Now that you have vCenter Log Insight deployed and configured, you need to configure sources to send their log messages to Log Insight. If you…
ESXi Stops Sending Syslog Messages to Remote Syslog Destinations
VMware has had the following KB article for some time now, but I think it is important to highlight it: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003127. So what do you…
Automating VCSA Configuration
If you have deployed the VCSA a couple of dozen times like me then you quickly realize that it is necessary to script the initial…
Corosync: unknown error
For environments where the use of a load balancer is not feasible because of say cost or complexity I often use Corosync to provide similar…
Configuring syslog on ESXi
I was assigned an interesting problem a few weeks back. A customer had requested that all ESXi servers have syslog configured in order to troubleshoot…