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4 Replies Last post: May 18, 2009 1:13 PM by Texiwill
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vmware infrastructure VMI - events viewer

May 14, 2009 12:34 PM

Click to view sunvmman's profile Enthusiast sunvmman 75 posts since
Jun 26, 2008
how can i customize the tasks & event viewer to by default show me the events of the last weeked ?
Reply Re: vmware infrastructure VMI - events viewer May 16, 2009 2:07 AM
Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru AndreTheGiant 5,643 posts since
Aug 28, 2008

If think is not (directly) possible.

Maybe with SDK.

Andre
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Reply Re: vmware infrastructure VMI - events viewer May 18, 2009 9:52 AM
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Click to view Texiwill's profile Guru Texiwill 10,056 posts since
Jan 13, 2004 Moderator
Hello,

Is this within the VM? The vCenter Server? or within the VIC? that you want to view things? Event Viewer means a few different things.


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Reply Re: vmware infrastructure VMI - events viewer May 18, 2009 10:10 AM
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Click to view sunvmman's profile Enthusiast sunvmman 75 posts since
Jun 26, 2008
Using Vmwaer Infrastructure client, i go to tasks & events. It only shows me 2 days worth of events. How can i be able to see 2 weeks worth of events.

thank you.
Reply Re: vmware infrastructure VMI - events viewer May 18, 2009 1:13 PM
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Click to view Texiwill's profile Guru Texiwill 10,056 posts since
Jan 13, 2004 Moderator
Hello,

Unfortunately you can not. If you are using vCenter Server you can write some custom SQL Queries or use 3rd party products such as Reflex VMC.

If you do not have vCenter then you would need to parse the /var/log/vmware/hostd.log file.


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