Understand when an advanced setting has been modified

[ecorvino]

Is it possible to understand when an advanced setting has been modified?

I mean if is there a log which track when an advanced setting has been modified and further which user did it.

thanks in advance

[Scott Vessey]

You don't say whether vCenter Server is managing your hosts or not.

If you are using vCenter Server, you may find what you're looking for in the events:

Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions

These 2 links should help you understand logs and their locations.

ESXi Log File Locations

VMware Knowledge Base

[ecorvino]

Hi Scott,

thanks for your answer, based on links you wrote file should be hostd.log, unfortunately it has less then 2 weeks of history in my case, but you give me the right way to understand.

[b.w]

you can list modified settings via esxcli: esxcli system settings advanced list -d

[ecorvino]

Thank you bewe, I know that ,but it only shows which parameter have been modified not when.