Comments on: PowerCLI: Reading host log files

By: از کار افتادن هفتگی Esxi 4.1

از کار افتادن هفتگی Esxi 4.1 — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:11:42 +0000

[...] view the logs via the powershell window, you can read more about that here on Alan Renouf's post: PowerCLI: Reading host log files Vmware ESXi 4 Log Files | Xtravirt محمد حکیمی mh [a t] mhme.net [...]

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:16:18 +0000

You should be able to pipe them into Out-file c:\tmp\log.txt

By: Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:56:11 +0000

Al,

How can we export these logs to text or Word file? Thanks

By: Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:31:55 +0000

Good day Virtu-al,

I’m a bit puzzled, we have put together several PowerCLI scripts to collects logs from the ESXi host servers, which work great; but there is one log I can’t seem to query which is a report on the Secure log. Do you have some tricks up your sleeve to remote retrieve the secure log.

Thanks.

By: VMware ESXi 4 Log Files - The SLOG – SimonLong/Blog

VMware ESXi 4 Log Files - The SLOG – SimonLong/Blog — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:06:26 +0000

[...] You will also need Winrar to un-zip the bundle to be able to view the logs. There are ways you can actually view the logs via the powershell window, you can read more about that here on Alan Renouf's post: PowerCLI: Reading host log files [...]

By: Sebastian Kayser

Sebastian Kayser — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:54:49 +0000

Al, any idea whether there’s a way to query the esxupdate.log via PowerCLI?

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:37 +0000

@Mike Foley Thanks, your right, I do have a version which now works with both, its in the latest vCheck script too.

By: Mike Foley

Mike Foley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:26:24 +0000

Note that this will only work with ESX servers and not ESXi servers. ESXi servers have all the vmkernel logs rolled up into the key “messages”

If server type is ESX then key is vmkernel, else key is messages.

mike

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:49:59 +0000

We have configured our hosts to pipe out all logs to a syslog server that provides e-mail alerts for any messageswith warning or error priority. It works a treat, but I know it is not powershell…

By: PowerCLI: Reading the VMKERNEL logfiles with Powershell v2 « ICT-Freak.nl

PowerCLI: Reading the VMKERNEL logfiles with Powershell v2 « ICT-Freak.nl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:20:09 +0000

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