cleaning out old logs in vcsa 6

[tdubb123]

any idea where I can clean out or remove old logs older than 6 month on the vcsa appliance?

[daphnissov]

Start by identifying which application within the vCSA is occupying the largest amount of log space with du -sh /storage/log/vmware/*

[msripada]

Hello,

You can check this KB article VMware Knowledge Base

This is for /storage/log/sso folder growing large due to log files and if root is full then you can use this below KB

VMware Knowledge Base

Thanks,

MS

[tdubb123]

[tdubb123]

another one

[daphnissov]

In your case, you probably have some large Java heap dumps (from crashes in the web client) at vsphere-client, which is fairly common. ls -lh inside that directory to show its contents.

[tdubb123]

[msripada]

You can remove the java_pid30975.hprof files which is 1.8GB size from that folder. It looks like the vCenter is with external PSC.

thanks,

MS

[daphnissov]

That .hprof file is a Java dump and can be removed. I see you also have a logbrowser directory which indicates you've done some generation from within the web client. Do a du -sh * inside the current directory and show its size. Usually things inside logbrowser can be removed.

[msripada]

Also, the cloudvm folder size is huge so I guess you might be hitting issue similar to the one discussed on this VMware Knowledge Base

Rather than doing workaround in that KB. You can just make that file 0 size by below command. This will just make the file size zero bytes if its large

cat /dev/null > /storage/log/vmware/cloudvm/cloudvm-ram-size.log

Thanks,

MS

[tdubb123]

[tdubb123]

[msripada]

1.4GB is taking by cloudvm-ram-size.log. You dont need to delete. If you do not want this log then you can make it to 0 by using the above command. It is generic unix command.

Thanks,

MS

[Finikiez]

Have a look into the following KB article about Java dump files on VCSA 6.5

VMware Knowledge Base