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2 Click Monitor, and click System Logs.
3 From the drop-down menu, select the log.
4 (Optional) Click Show All Lines or Show Next 2000 Lines to see additional log entries.
Export Events Data
You can export all or part of the events data stored in the vCenter Server database.
Prerequisites
Required Role: Read-only
Procedure
1 Select an inventory object in the vSphere Web Client.
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Events.
3
Click the Export icon ( ).
4 In the Export Events window, specify what types of event information you want to export.
5 Click Generate CSV Report, and click Save.
6 Specify a file name and location and save the file.
Streaming Events to a Remote Syslog Server
After you enable remote streaming, vCenter Server Appliance starts streaming and only the newly
generated events are streamed to the remote syslog server.
All syslog messages begin with a specific prefix. You can distinguish the vCenter Server Appliance events
from other syslog messages by their Event prefix.
The syslog protocol limits the length of syslog messages to 1024 characters. Messages that are longer
than 1024 characters split into multiple syslog messages.
In the syslog server, events have the following format:
<syslog-prefix> : Event [eventId] [partInfo] [createdTime] [eventType] [severity] [user] [target]
[chainId] [desc]
Item Description
syslog-prefix Displays the syslog prefix. The <syslog-prefix> is determined by the remote syslog server
configuration.
eventId Displays the unique ID of the event message. The default value is Event.
partInfo Displays whether the message is split into parts.
createdTime Displays the time when the event was generated.
eventType Displays the event type.
severity Displays whether the event is a piece information, a warning, or an error.
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