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badazws6
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vCenter Syslog Collector Max retention conifig

Does anyone have any information on the max retention of size and number of of files for teh vCenter Syslog collector.  I have been experimenting and it appears the most I have been able to configure is 100 rotations of 10mb per host.  Does anyone have any information on expanding past that point?

Thanks,

Matt

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JagadeeshDev
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The vSphere Syslog Collector settings can be found under:

  • Windows 2003 –> C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware Syslog Collector\vmconfig-syslog.xml
  • Windows 2008 –> C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Syslog Collector\vmconfig-syslog.xml

If you open this file you can change all the settings you configured during the installation.

<defaultValues>
<port>514</port>
<protocol>TCP,UDP</protocol>
<maxSize>2</maxSize>
<rotate>8</rotate>
<sslPort>1514</sslPort>
</defaultValues>

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badazws6
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Thanks JD, that is exactly what I have been updating to change the size and rotations during the testing.

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JagadeeshDev
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Cheers !


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