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How to change verbosity of usb.log?

Hi,

I have a special cluster where the VMs have USB devices. Each VM has more than one device from the same manufacturer.

I need to identify dongles via the serial number but the vClient show me only the path USB (USB ID).

In ESXi 5.0 can obtain the desired information in usb.log as the example:

2014-02-12T19: 33:58 Z usbarb [2835]: USBArb: Device 6: name: WIBU-Systems \ CodeMeter-Stick vid: pid 064f: 03e9 path: 6/1/1 speed: full

family: storage version: 2 serialnum: 000002319999 id: 60006099f09e9 owner: VM001

The log of ESXi 5.1 or 5.5 does not display this information.

To view the log as shown above, you must add the parameter "--verbose" at service startup in /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator.

However, this change is not persistent.

How could I use the verbose mode on ESXi 5.5 usbarbitrator service persistently?

Thanks.