Like with any other software product, you will unavoidably run into issues that are product configuration issues, bugs or operational gotchas and so on. The section of the chapter will help you to get to SRM and vSphere Replication logs and also provide you with troubleshooting references.
To understand why a software functionality failed or exhibited abnormal behavior, it is important to know what exactly transpired during that occurrence. Although most modern software will expose events/errors in the GUI, it is impractical to present a more detailed view of the events/errors in the graphical user interface. Hence, all software products maintain logs. Logs are not just generated when something goes wrong but are constantly maintained. Logs might show errors and warnings even when everything is working fine.
The important fact is that not everything in the logs would make sense or help an administrator to troubleshoot an issue...