VMware Log Insight Search Ideas

When I click "Dashboards and select the vmware dashboard(from the standard content pack) and then proceed to click around on the Storage pieces of the content pack will cause it to display "connection to the server was lost"

 

Log insight 1.5 TP3

I am using version 1.1.3-1355360 to troubleshoot some severe storage issues for a customer. I am seeing a bunch of SCSI error codes / Sense key data related to the device (e.g. failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0). However, the new SCSI Sense Code dashboard does not display any.

Host-based codes are being displayed correctly in the dashboard.

I am seeing this on an upgrade from release 1.0.4.... more »

IMPORTANT: As of LI 2.x a reset script exists on the LI VA under /opt/vmware/bin. The script is called "li-reset-admin-passwd.sh" and is in the default path.

Changing the admin password should be done from the web UI. If all admin passwords are unknown then the password must be reset from the command line. The command line steps are outlined here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/log-insight-10-install-admin-guide.pdf.

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While it's nice to have a button to restart the Log Insight service, it might also be nice to also have a button to do a graceful shutdown and power off of the appliance in the GUI. Assuming role-based access is available (there is a post in this forum already about a "read-only" view), this capability could be selectively applied.

Has anyone had any luck with getting a Solaris 10 server to send syslog into LogInsight?

 

I've tried:

 

*.debug @IPADDRESS

 

and other variations in the /etc/syslog.conf

 

Then restarting or refreshing via:

 

svcadm refresh svc:/system/system-log:default

 

svcadm restart system/system-log

 

But nothing seems to work. Any thought/help would be great.

I am trying to update to the new GA release from beta 1.5tp3 says "Upgrade failed"

"error: /tmp/VMware-vCenter-Log-Insight-1.5.0-1435442.pak: not an rpm package"

I downloaded

VMware-vCenter-Log-Insight-1.5.0-1435442.pak
File size:79M
File type:pak
Release Date:2013-12-10
Build Number:1435442
VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5.0 – PAK
Use the PAK file to upgrade an existing deployment of Log Insight 1.5.0 beta and preserve... more »

When LI zips up logs and kicks them out to an NFS mount, they're no longer searchable through LI, right? The NFS export is just for legal log retention compliance - not to add additional "second-tier but still searchable" storage?

 

Sorry if this has been asked before. Is there a way to search all questions that have been asked?

Looking for assistance with getting this configured and working. The description of the content pack states it is easily configured, however, I have been unable to get it showing any data. Within UCS manager there are several options for syslog levels and the Facility to use and I am not sure which one to select. Would be nice if there was a config guide. Any suggestions?

Develop a native method to ingest logs from vCloud Automation Center 5.x and 6.x. Including but not limited to workflows logs and application services.

 

Provide a community content pack with the requisite dashboard for both the application services and the defined vCAC workflows.

 

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Staff Technical Account Manager

Professional Services | vmware

When user's UPN domain suffix is different than that of defined 'default domain'.

While setting up integration between vcops and Log-Insight i get an error message "Connection test failed with status code 500", though the entries are valid.

 

I have admin access to both vcops and Log-insight that i am working on.

 

Log insight version - 1.5

VCOPS version - 5.7.1

I've had Log Insight 1.5 running for only a week. An update to my HP servers sent 26,000 logs per second and managed to fill 500GB of disk space that was supposed to last me a few months.

 

I would like to erase all my logs and start over but I don't want to redeploy an reconfigure Log Insight.

 

Should I just delete and recreate my disk? Whats the best procedure?

 

Thanks

Within Log Insight, when an event happens, it triggers an alert to our email. Is there a way to include the "vc_username" or "vc_vm_name" involved in the event?

I added a new 100g disk to Log Insight today but the app never added it to Live Storage. Any assistance to remedy would be appreciated, thanks!

For the longest time, I wanted to be able to put Log Insight to use. However, each customer I was working for had no need for it nor would they know what to do with it if they did. It was by extreme Providence that my current permanent position encourages me each day to push the envelope in our environment which contains NetApp ONTAP, Cisco UCS and of course VMware vSphere. The time finally came today - I had all the... more »