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In fact, I had even written about this topic in how you can retrieve and audit VM reconfigurations and see what exactly changed. However, I would like to clear up a general miss-conception that although the vCenter Server UI did not provide the specific changes, the underlying vCenter Server Event system does have this information. This made auditing changes in a vSphere environment quite difficult as you could not see what was changed. The classic example is modifying a VM which produces the generic "VM was reconfigured" message.

Enhanced VC Events in UI - Historically, when viewing VC Event that contained a configuration change, there was no additional details on what exactly was changed.

There are three major changes that were introduced in VCSA 6.5 with respect to vCenter Server Events, some of which have implications on logging. Each VC Event contains quite a bit of information including What was changed, When it was changed and Who made the change. An example of a VC Event can be reconfiguring a VM or removing an ESXi host from a Cluster. I assume most of you are probably familiar with vCenter Server Events. If not, they are simply records of user or system actions on a specific vSphere Inventory object. Note: If you decide to use port 1514, I have found that you must use the TLS protocol rather than TCP or else it will not work.Ī minor change, but syslog-ng is no longer being used within the VCSA and has been replaced by rsyslog. If you wish to disable the remote syslog functionality, simply click on the reset button. Once you have saved your changes, the syslog client will automatically be restarted for the changes to go into effect. In VCSA 6.5, the remote syslog configurations is now part of the VAMI UI ( is an out-of-band interface that can still function if either SSO or vCenter Server is down.

Although this may have felt like a convenience, it also added an unnecessary dependency on both vCenter Single-Sign On (SSO) and the vSphere Web Client UI. In VCSA 6.0, to configure the remote syslog configuration, you needed to use the vSphere Web Client. Hopefully by the end of this article, you will have a better understanding of the syslog capabilities in VCSA 6.5 Remote Syslog Configuration The native remote syslog functionality in the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) for vSphere 6.5 introduces several new changes from vSphere 6.0. With some of the questions that I have been receiving on this topic, I figure it would be useful to take a closer look at some of the different behaviors and configuration differences.