We’re blissful to announce that the VMware Cloud Director Availability Content material Pack for VMware Aria Operations for Logs 2.1 is now accessible.
It helps the most recent product variations and is aligned to the extra VMware Cloud Director Availability logs added in them.
Interoperability
This new model of the content material pack helps:
- VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7 and later
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.10 and later
Set up
The content material pack will be downloaded from the VMware Market or immediately put in by the Market menu in VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI > Content material Packs.
Improve
For those who already run an older model of the content material pack, you possibly can simply improve it to 2.1 by:
- Navigating to the VMware Operations for Logs UI > Content material Packs > Updates. You may be notified there may be an replace accessible, and you may carry out it with a single click on.
- Straight importing the brand new model from the VLCP file downloaded from the VMware Market. It’s going to result in updating the prevailing one.
Log Assortment
There are two methods to gather log data from VMware Cloud Director Availability:
- By setting the Syslog configuration in Occasions and Notifications by the Administration Portal [Configuration steps]
- By putting in VMware Aria Operations for Logs brokers on all of the VMware Cloud Director Availability home equipment [Agent installation steps]
With the earlier variations, to make use of the dashboards, queries, and alerts that got here with the content material pack, it was required to take the Syslog strategy.
Now, with 2.1 and VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7, each strategies for log assortment will be chosen with no distinction.
Notice: For those who configure each on the similar time, this may result in duplicate data in VMware Aria Operations for Logs.
Agent Group Configuration
To use the agent group configuration on the VMware Cloud Director Availability digital equipment, please comply with these steps:
- Navigate to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI.
- Go to Administration > Brokers.
- Choose the All Brokers drop-down on the prime of the window.
- Click on the Copy Template button for the suitable VMware – VCDA agent group(s).
- Add the correct filters to specify which agent ought to get the configuration.
- Click on Refresh on the prime of the web page.
- Click on Save Agent Group on the backside of the web page.
Focus
As an audit log was unavailable within the filesystem of the VMware Cloud Director Availability home equipment within the earlier releases, the one option to seize auditing data was through Syslog. In VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7, there’s a new log file that incorporates details about audit occasions reminiscent of logins, modifications to system settings or replications, and extra. You could find out the total particulars concerning the audit occasions within the documentation.
That is the way it seems to be within the log browser.
