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vpxd.log:<\/strong> The main vCenter Server log, consisting of all vSphere Client and WebServices connections, internal tasks and events, and communication with the vCenter Server Agent (vpxa) on managed ESXi\/ESX hosts.<\/p>\n vpxd-profiler.log, profiler.log, and scoreboard.log:<\/strong> Profiled metrics for operations performed in vCenter Server. Used by the VPX Operational Dashboard (VOD) accessible at https:\/\/VCHostnameOrIPAddress\/vod\/index.html.<\/p>\n vpxd-alert.log:<\/strong> Non-fatal information logged about the vpxd process.<\/p>\n cim-diag.log and vws.log:<\/strong> Common Information Model monitoring information, including communication between vCenter Server and managed hosts’ CIM interface.<\/p>\n drmdump\\:<\/strong> Actions proposed and taken by VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), grouped by the DRS-enabled cluster managed by vCenter Server. These logs are compressed.<\/p>\n ls.log:<\/strong> Health reports for the Licensing Services extension, connectivity logs to vCenter Server.<\/p>\n vimtool.log:<\/strong> Dump of string used during the installation of vCenter Server with hashed information for DNS, username and output for JDBC creation.<\/p>\n stats.log:<\/strong> Provides information about the historical performance data collection from the ESXi\/ESX hosts<\/p>\n sms.log:<\/strong> Health reports for the Storage Monitoring Service extension, connectivity logs to vCenter Server, the vCenter Server database and the xDB for vCenter Inventory Service.<\/p>\n eam.log:<\/strong> Health reports for the ESX Agent Monitor extension, connectivity logs to vCenter Server.<\/p>\n catalina.date.log and localhost.date.log:<\/strong> Connectivity information and status of the VMware Webmanagement Services.<\/p>\n jointool.log:<\/strong> Health status of the VMwareVCMSDS service and individual ADAM database objects, internal tasks and events, and replication logs between linked-mode vCenter Servers.<\/p>\n manager.date.log<\/strong> Directory path for reference below,<\/p>\n vCenter Server log files information, vCenter Server 5.x and earlier versions on Windows XP, 2000, 2003: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Application Data\\VMware\\VMware VirtualCenter\\Logs\\ vCenter Server 5.x and earlier versions on Windows Vista, 7, 2008: C:\\ProgramData\\VMware\\VMware VirtualCenter\\Logs\\ vCenter Server Appliance 5.x: \/var\/log\/vmware\/vpx\/ vCenter Server Appliance 5.x UI: \/var\/log\/vmware\/vami For vCenter Server 6.0 on Windows: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\VMWare\\vCenterServer\\logs For vCenter Server 6.0 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[321,319,318,322,323,320],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-catalina-date-log","tag-logs","tag-vcenter","tag-vimtool-log","tag-vpxd-alert-log","tag-vpxd-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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