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vCenter Alarms, Tasks, and Events in vRealize Operations 6.4

We have a few vCenters and they are 5.5 running on Windows with SQL.  We are going to 6.0 U2 with appliances and we are trying to solve something.  All of our hosts syslog to Splunk and the new 6.0 appliances have syslog to Splunk.  Our issue we are trying to solve is seeing if we can get vCenter Tasks, Events, and Alarms to come through.  Without deploying all these extra Splunk VMs to get vCenter data we are trying to see if vRealize Operations already has this data?

I can't seem to find anything in vRealize for Tasks, Events, or Alarms that vCenter creates.  Does anyone know if vRealize Operations logs this information and if so where?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

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sxnxr
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As far as i am aware vrops does not pull that info in. It leaves that to log insight. If you deploy log insight it will pull all that info out of the box when configuring the management pack. Depending on how you have licenced your vrops you might get it as part of the licence. For example we get it because we use vcloud suite advanced on the hosts

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sxnxr
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As far as i am aware vrops does not pull that info in. It leaves that to log insight. If you deploy log insight it will pull all that info out of the box when configuring the management pack. Depending on how you have licenced your vrops you might get it as part of the licence. For example we get it because we use vcloud suite advanced on the hosts

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Thanks for the quick reply.  We have vCloud Suite Standard on our non-prod and vCloud Suite Enterprise on our PROD.  This is all prior to the version 7 which strips out SRM on Enterprise.  I'll give it a look and try that out.  Log insight sounds like the least amount of work.

Thanks again.

Mike

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newbski1
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Unfortunately you have to have Cloud Suite 7 to get Log Insight and we are on 5 and 6.  Oh well.

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sxnxr
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If you have an active support agreement you should be able to upgrade the licence to 7 to be able to licence log insight.

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newbski1
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Yeah we do but the problem occurs with version 7 on Enterprise.  You lose SRM on a socket based license and I don't know how that would work?  We then have to go to a VM based license and you can't inter-mix socket versus VM based licensing.  It kind of sucks.  We'll figure something out.

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I ran into this same need, I did some research it looks like for every vCenter license you can get a OSI-25 Pack for Log Insight, am I right to assume that this option using Log Insight can create reports we can use to look at tasks/events that happened in last 24hrs?

FAQ: Log Insight for vCenter Server (2144909) | VMware KB

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