How to provide NSX firewall logging to individual tenants
Settings up firewall logging for VMware NSX isn’t to complicated, especially when using vRealize Log Insight. Seeing as Log Insight has a management pack available for NSX, which you can download directly from the market place. Most organisations are using some form of firewall logging. And…
vRealize Log Insight: Internal vs External Load Balancer
Most of the times when talking about high availability or scaling a product like vRealize Log Insight is easily forgotten. This is a shame, especially since vRealize Log Insight is so easy to setup as a cluster with load balancing capabilities. You might wonder why it…
Control NSX using Log Insight webhooks and a Lego Mindstorms robot
[Updated 26-03: Added the NSX API call script] During the last few years we’ve had some fun demos at the Dutch VMUG Usercon. We’ve automated a coffee machine using vRealize Orchestrator. We did a vRealize Automation challenge where competitors could control a lightsaber when they…
vRealize Log Insight internal storage management
Recently I encountered a alert in vRealize Operations stating that on one of my virtual machines the disks-ace was getting low. It turned out to be the vRealize Log Insight server in my test environment. For those of you that don’t know, vRealize Log Insight is…
Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 3.3
vRealize Log Insight 3.3 was released in March. Now that the first update for Log Insight (3.3.1) was released last week it is time to upgrade to the latest version. Log Insight 3.3 gives you some long awaited features and more IPv6 goodness. If you didn’t…
Installing the Linux agent for Log Insight
As I explained in an earlier post all systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. Just like the Windows agent you can download the Linux agent from the Log Insight interface. Go to the admin->Administration panel -> Agents. In…
Installing the Windows agent for Log Insight
Log Insight can collect data from various sources as I explained earlier. All systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. There are two agents available for deployment, a Linux agent and a Windows agent. Both agents…
Configuring Log Insight for vSphere Integration
In this article I will help you to set up your first source, vRealize Log Insight for vSphere integration. vRealize Log Insight can integrate with vSphere to automatically import events from vCenter server and logs from ESXi hosts. If you missed the first articles in the…
vRealize Log Insight quick interface Walkthrough
In the last post I described why log monitoring is important and what you can use to monitor your logfiles and how you can deploy vRealize Log Insight. In this post I will walk you through the interface. It will be a short post, since the…
Getting started with vRealize Log Insight
VMware has a lot of tools these days. From the tools for virtualization all kinds of workloads to managing all that in an automated manner. In that last category VMware also has a tool called vRealize Log Insight. vRealize Log Insight, together with vRealize Operations gives…
Integrating VMware NSX with VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Log Insight is a log analyser with capabilities to receive logs from regular syslog (so every device that can send syslog over the network) and from agents for Windows and Linux. Mostly every device can be configured to send logs to it and…
vRealize Operations Manager Content Pack for Log Insight
vRealize Operations Manager Content Pack for Log Insight is provided to present log data in a more meaningful way and to analyze all the logs redirected from a vRealize Operations Manager instance(s). The content pack contains various dashboards, queries and alerts to provide better diagnostics and…
vRealize Log Insight 2.5 available soon
VMware announced version 2.5 of their log management product vRealize Log Insight. Formerly VMware vCenter Log Insight, vRealize Log Insight provides real-time log management across physical, virtual and cloud environments. The new release offers better integration with vRealize Operations and analyzes both structured…
