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4 Configure the password expiration settings for the root user.
a In the Password expiration settings section, click Edit and select the password expiration policy.
Option Description
Yes The password of the root user expires after a specified number of days. You
must provide the following information:
n
Root password validity (days)
The number of days after which the password expires.
n
Email for expiration warning
The email address to which the vCenter Server Appliance sends a
warning message before the expiration date.
No The password of the root user never expires.
b In the Password expiration settings pane, click Save to apply the new password expiration
settings.
The Password expiration settings section displays the new expiration date.
Forward vCenter Server Appliance Log Files to Remote
Syslog Server
You can forward the vCenter Server Appliance log files to a remote syslog server to conduct an analysis
of your logs.
Note ESXi can be configured to send log files to a vCenter Server rather than storing them to a local
disk. The recommended maximum numbers of supported hosts to collect logs from is 30. See
http://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2003322 for information on how to configure ESXi log forwarding. This
feature is intended for smaller environments with stateless ESXi hosts. For all other cases, use a
dedicated log server. Using vCenter Server to receive ESXi log files might impact vCenter Server
performance.
Prerequisites
Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface as root.
Procedure
1 In the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface, select Syslog.
2 In the Forwarding Configuration section, click Configure if you have not configured any remote
syslog hosts. Click Edit if you already have configured hosts.
3 In the Create Forwarding Configuration pane, enter the server address of the destination host. The
maximum number of supported destination hosts is three.
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