Viewing vcenter log

[mahmn]

Hi,

In the documents of vsphere 6.5 [1], I see

1. Navigate to the location of the log browser manifest file.

   The default location is: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/plugin-packages/logbrwoser

2. Rename the file plugin-package.xml.unused to plugin-package.xml, and save it.

However, I don't see such thing. Please see below:

root@10 [ /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/plugin-packages ]# ls

cis-data-service-plugin  sr-upload     vcamarketing-plugin  vsphere-client-modules

license-client           sso-admin-ui  vco-plugin

opsmgmt-client           telemetry     vsphere-client

Any idea about that?

[1] Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance

[chs1]

Are you definitely using vCenter 6.5? I don't believe this exists in 6.7 - and that path definitely isn't present on my VCSA 6.7 installs (and in fact there's no plugin-package.xml.unused files at all on the disk).

 

Alternatives for viewing logs include configuring syslog, or ESXi logs can be found by visiting the host(s) directly https://myesxihost/ui/#/host/monitor/logs

[Lalegre]

Hey ,

There is even a topic with version 6.7 where the folder is missing for a lot of the community folks and they did not added it in the new versions so I recommend you contact VMware for this to confirm if this is still a valid feature and which package is included.

I will check tomorrow in my platform as maybe I do not have it either.