It's an interesting thought, however it would not be real time and I'm unsure about get-event pulling logs from VC. If it can, Snare has a text log watcher product that could output those PowerShell get-event logs to a syslog server.
There is a product called snare that can translate windows event logs to syslog and forward them to a remote syslog server.
Link:[Snare|http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/BackLogNT/index.html]
thank you! are you having some how-tos?
greetings
Snare will only get the Windows event logs. I've been monitoring this thread to see if others have found a way to real-time monitor the vCenter events being written to the db. I don't want to perform the events export but would prefer that the vCenter events that eventually roll up into syslog. Has anyone written a stored procedure or alt. that does this?
whats about getting the vCenter Events with Powershell "Get-Event" and then store the entries into the syslog server?
It's an interesting thought, however it would not be real time and I'm unsure about get-event pulling logs from VC. If it can, Snare has a text log watcher product that could output those PowerShell get-event logs to a syslog server.
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Any news on this Question?
Is ther with the Vers 4.01 a possiblility to get the alarms on Syslog to a Syslog Server?
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Florian
I know this is an old discussion, but can anyone tell me where the vCenter Events log to? I can see nothing in the Windows Event Logs nor can I find a txt file. Do they log to the SQL server?
If you're using vCenter 4.1 on Server 2008 64bit or R2, you'll find the logs in:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs
Looks like Snare has this functionality. Testing tomorrow and will post the results.
Any news on this? I am looking for a way to get vCenter to send its logfiles to a syslog server (Splunk).
Sorry, In class all this week. I should have some results by next week. Stay tuned.
Snare Epilog for Windows worked forme to send the vcenter log files to syslog server.