Diagnostic information can be generated as a log or diagnostic bundle as generated by vCenter Server system or a diagnostic bundle which contains log files, configuration files and a capture using esxtop generated by vm-support utility on an ESXi host system. The bundle generated will be in the form of a zip or gzip file … More Logging – Part One: Generating vCenter Server and ESXi Log Bundles
I was recently looking at streaming output to a log file synchronously in a powershell session to write numerous events for invoking several cmdlets in a script operation. In order to achieve this I was able to leverage the FileStream and StreamWriter classes as well as creating a log function to both write the event … More Exposing a stream around a log file for synchronous writes using Powershell
In order to join ESXi hosts to the domain Likewise agents are used to join to the Active Directory domain and for user authentication requests. In order to troubleshoot Active Directory integration you will need to enable logging of the agent as by default they do not generate a log file. This can be performed … More Enabling logging for Likewise agents in ESXi
By default, VMware Tools will only generate logs where this a fatal error or if the service becomes unresponsive. In order to gather information for troubleshooting VMware Tools you will be required to enable debug logging within the VMware Tools configuration file, as below: 1) Browse to the configuration file location as specified per operating system. … More Enabling Guest OS logging for VMware Tools
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