Monitoring logs of ESXi hosts in checkmk

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Hi Team,

Please let us know if we can capture the syslog events of ESXi hosts in checkmk.
Also, let us know if we need to do any configurations from ESXi server end.

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Hi,

there is no agent based method, but you can forward the esxi Logs via syslog to the event console and create filters for severity or criticality.

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/318939/configuring-syslog-on-esxi.html

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Hi @aeckstein ,

Thanks!

We have configured it as per the shared link but still logs are not captured by checkmk

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Hi,

you need to create filter rules in the event console. Have you created those ?
Do you have configured anything in the event console yet ?

If you don´t have any rules yet, you can create a test “catch all rule” with the parameter - text to match = .*
Then you should see the log messages in the event console and can later create filters for specific errors, syslog facilities or priorities based on the exisiting events.

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Hi,
We are trying to check the logs in the server not in GUI event console. For that also do we need to create the rules in console.

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Any updates on this? I`m testing that too.