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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Redirecting Orchestrator Syslog to an external Syslog server


In this recipe, we will configure the Orchestrator Server to send all logs to a centralized Syslog server. This is especially important when using Orchestrator clusters.

Getting ready

You need a Syslog server as a target. In this example, we will use the VMware Syslog server that can be installed from the vCenter Server installation media (ISO image).

We also need access to the local OS (either Windows or Orchestrator appliance).

How to do it...

This recipe splits off into installing and using the vSphere Syslog server and the redirection of the Orchestrator Syslog.

Install VMware vSphere Syslog Collector

You can use any Syslog server, however, if you don't have one already, the one supplied by VMware isn't that bad.

  1. Insert the vSphere installation media DVD.

  2. Click on VMware vSphere Syslog Collector.

  3. Follow the installation and choose the path to store the Syslog data.

  4. Choose the VMware vCenter Server Installation option if you want the...