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ecorvino
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Understand when an advanced setting has been modified

Is it possible to understand when an advanced setting has been modified?

I mean if is there a log which track when an advanced setting has been modified and further which user did it.

thanks in advance

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scott28tt
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You don't say whether vCenter Server is managing your hosts or not.

If you are using vCenter Server, you may find what you're looking for in the events:

Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions

These 2 links should help you understand logs and their locations.

ESXi Log File Locations

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scott28tt
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You don't say whether vCenter Server is managing your hosts or not.

If you are using vCenter Server, you may find what you're looking for in the events:

Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions

These 2 links should help you understand logs and their locations.

ESXi Log File Locations

VMware Knowledge Base


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berndweyand
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you can list modified settings via esxcli: esxcli system settings advanced list -d

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ecorvino
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Hi Scott,

thanks for your answer, based on links you wrote file should be hostd.log, unfortunately it has less then 2 weeks of history in my case, but you give me the right way to understand.

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ecorvino
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Thank you bewe, I know that ,but it only shows which parameter have been modified not when.

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