Find VM Guest with Logging Disabled and Enable

[nicholas1982]

Hi All,

Just finished a support call with VMware and unfortunately the vmware.log wasn't updated due the logging being disabled.

I found random VMs with this issues, there was probably a template with this parameter which got deployed several times.

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I need a way to scan all guests for this parameter and cheange the value to true, any help would be appreciated

[kunaludapi]

Virtual Machine logging | LucD notesLucD notes

[LucD · Accepted solution]

And with this line you can scan what the setting is on your VMs

Get-VM | Select Name, @{N="Logging Enabled";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging}}

[nicholas1982]

Hi Luc,

Thanks, can help filter out enableLogging -eq TRUE then I can output that to CSV using Export-csv, then if its not too much trouble set guest VM eq FALSE to TRUE ?

[LucD]

You can use my function from Virtual Machine logging to enable logging.

Something like this

Get-VM | 
Where {!$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging} | %{
  Set-VMLogging -VM $_ -Logging:$true
}

To report on the VM that have logging enabled, you can do something like this

Get-VM | 
Where {$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging} |
Select Name, @{N="Logging Enabled";E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging}} |
Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

[nicholas1982]

Hi Luc,

That's great, is there anyway to report on guest with logging disabled rather than enabled ?

[LucD]

Sure, change this line

Where {$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging} |

to

Where {!$_.ExtensionData.Config.Flags.enableLogging} |

The ! negates the Boolean that follows.

[Mahiee]

I tried by keeping "!" still report is filled up with logging enabled VMs, without "!" and with both reports VMs are same. can you please suggest on it