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5vCenter Server Heartbeat Diagnostics
You can use a variety of procedures for diagnosing and fixing problems that you may encounter when using
vCenter Server Heartbeat.You can use troubleshooting procedures to investigate the causes of such problems
and attempt to correct them yourself, or you can obtain assistance from VMware Technical Support. The
following unexpected behaviors illustrate Problems, Causes, and Solutions for a given scenario.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Collecting Diagnostic Logs, on page 79
Two Active or Two Passive Nodes, on page 80
Synchronization Failures, on page 82
Registry Status is Out-of-Sync, on page 85
Channel Drops, on page 85
Subnet or Routing Issues, on page 89
MaxDiskUsage Errors, on page 90
Application Slowdown, on page 94
Collecting Diagnostic Logs
In the event that it is necessary to collect diagnostic logs for vCenter Server Heartbeat, launch the LogCollector
tool to automatically collect all required diagnostic logs for forwarding to VMware support.
Procedure
1 Right-click the vCenter Server Heartbeat System tray icon.
2 Select Collect Diagnostic Logs.
The vCenter Server Heartbeat LogCollector is displayed.
3 Click either Collect logs from all machines or Collect logs from this machine only.
The LogCollector displays the progress of collecting logs and once complete, provides a .zip file containing
the logs located in at <install_location>\VMware\vCenter Server Heartbeat\Log_<date>\<server>.zip
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