How to access a Virtual Machine's Event Tab contents

[arashmeimandi]

Hi Everyone,

I had a question hoping somebody can help with that. I need to know where exactly the contents of Events Tab in vSphere Client are stored and how we can access the entries without using the client

(ie download the logs) ?

I checked vxpa, hostd, and vmware.log and cross checked the entries with what I can see from the client but found no corresponding entries.

I know this question can be answered in two different scopes. Getting the contents when connected to the host directly or when connected to a vCenter Server.

Thanks you,

Arash-M

[ScreamingSilenc]

It is found in

/var/log/hostd.log: Host management service logs, including virtual machine and host Task and Events, communication with the vSphere Client and vCenter Server vpxa agent, and SDK connections.

More info : VMware KB: Location of ESXi 5.0 log files

[arashmeimandi]

Hi Musatafa,

Thanks for the response. As mentioned in my original post I've already checked hostd but I couldn't find any related info.

For example in the Events Tab for a VM I have:

Virtual machine disks consolidation succeeded.

info

4/08/2013 12:19:00 AM

<VM_NAME>

vpxuser

But when i grep hostd.log for consolidation using cat /var/log/hostd.log |grep -i consolidation I won't get any related info:

2013-08-05T21:49:25.128Z [6E439B90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/'] Done disk consolidation.

2013-08-06T05:49:47.281Z [6E47AB90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/] Done disk consolidation.

2013-08-06T13:49:37.138Z [6E4FCB90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/] Done disk consolidation.

2013-08-06T14:01:35.697Z [6E4FCB90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/] Done disk consolidation                                   .

2013-08-06T21:49:54.888Z [6DBE6B90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/] Done disk consolidation.

2013-08-07T00:37:16.155Z [6EC01B90 verbose 'vm:/vmfs/volumes/] Done disk consolidation.

More info:

I have connected to the host directly both from putty and vsphere client.

Thanks,

ArM711