In Chapter 2, Getting Started with vSphere Management Assistant, you learned about the location of vSphere and vCenter Server's logs and how to export the bundle log file. In most vSphere environments, the system administrator installs one syslog server to store the vSphere server's log for any troubleshooting required.
You can set up a third-party syslog server (for example, a Linux Syslog server or Windows-based Syslog server) or VMware vSphere Syslog Collector. You can also set up a vSphere Syslog Collector on the vCenter server, or on a different machine that has a network connection with the vCenter Server. The following is the installation procedure of the vSphere Syslog Collector on the vCenter Server, which is installed on a Windows platform and is not using the vCenter appliance:
Select VMware vSphere Syslog Collector in the VMware vCenter Support Tools menu and click on the Install button, as shown here:
Accept the...