Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Reviewing the Logs
You can connect the directory on the Syslog Collector and check that it is receiving logs from the
host. The directory is shown in the vSphere Client Syslog Collector's overview, which appeared
earlier in Figure 4.44. This overview shows a list of the hosts that are connecting. When you
browse to the directory, you gain access to the logs themselves (they are not available from the
client itself).
VCenter Log Insight
At the time of vSphere 5.5's release, VMware introduced a new product called Log Insight. h is is a
separately licensed tool that competes w ith other third-party log collection and analysis tools. Log
Insight can replace the Syslog Collector tool and provides a much richer searching and cross-host
correlation analysis. If you fi nd that the included vCenter Log Collector is not su cient for your
internal support needs, then VCenter Log Insight is a tool you may wish to investigate.
Other vCenter Support Tools
In addition to VUM, the ESXi Dump Collector, and the Syslog Collector; several other vCenter
Support Tools are shown in Figure 4.38. Each of these tools have already been discussed in pre-
vious chapters as it was pertinent to the deployment of ESXi or vCenter.
Auto Deploy
Auto Deploy is a tool to provision ESXi hosts from a central deployment
source. Auto Deploy was covered in Chapter 2, “Planning and Installing VMware ESXi.”
Authentication Proxy
The Authentication Proxy allows hosts to join an Active Directory
domain without needing to include domain credentials in deployment tools such as Auto
Deploy depots or scripted install i les. Authentication Proxy was covered in Chapter 2.
Host Agent Check
The Host Agent Check tool is a pre-upgrade solution that checks that
hosts connected to vCenter are suitable to be connected to vCenter 5.5. This verii cation pre-
vents host issues after a vCenter upgrade. Host AgentCheck was covered in Chapter 3.
Now you're ready to start taking advantage of the new networking functionality available in
VMware vSphere in Chapter 5.
h
e Bottom Line
Install VUM and integrate it with the vSphere Client.
vSphere Update Manager (VUM)
is installed from the VMware vCenter installation media and requires that vCenter Server
has already been installed. Like vCenter Server, VUM requires the use of a backend database
server. Finally, you must install a plug-in into the vSphere Client in order to access, manage,
and coni gure VUM.
Master It
You have VUM installed, and you've coni gured it from the vSphere Client on
your laptop. One of the other administrators on your team is saying that she can't access
or coni gure VUM and that there must be something wrong with the installation. What is
the most likely cause of the problem?
