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PaulFreedman
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VCSA 6.5 Troubleshooting Failed Logins

Can anyone point me in the right direction for where the logs files are that I can see failed login attempts to the web client?

Thanks in advance.

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vijayrana968
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SSO logs are located at /var/log/vmware/sso with file name ssoAdminServer.log. You can check logs here.

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PaulFreedman
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I have looked in there but cannot see any failed login attempts

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vijayrana968
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Check in /var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log

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dekoshal
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File name is websso.log in /var/log/vmware/sso on PSC

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Authetication failure log will report something like

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Successful login will report like this.

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