Redirecting VMware ESX/ESXi Logs to vMA

vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) is a Virtual Appliance for managing multiple VMware ESX hosts from a single Service Console
To enable log forwarding to vMA use:
vifp addserver <server-name or ipAddr>
sudo vilogger enable --server <VMware ESX name>

Für den ESXi gibt es auch noch einen advanced Parameter.

Redirecting VMware ESXi 4.0 Logs to a syslog server
Log on to VMware ESXi directly using vSphere Client
Configuration à Advanced Options à Syslog à Remote
Enter the syslog server's host name

Für den ESX 4:

You cannot use the vSphere Client or vicfg-syslog to configure syslog behavior for an ESX host. To configure
syslog for an ESx host, you must edit the /etc/syslog.conf file.

Beispiel:

Move to the bottom of the file and add the line in the next step if you want ALL the logs to be sent over to your syslog server.

#syslogserversetup
. @syslogsrv.mydomain

The first line in the above line is commented out by the # sign, the second line tells all the log files to be sent to "syslogsrv.mydomain". Use an ip address for the syslog server if you want this to work when your DNS server goes down.

service syslog restart (restarts the syslog service)
esxcfg-firewall -o 514,udp,out,syslog (opens the local firewall to allow remote syslogging)
esxcfg-firewall -l (reloads the new firewall configuration)