Enabling Remote Syslog with vCloud Director after installation

I have seen this asked a few times over the past year, and I also experienced it last week working on a customer deployment.  How do you get a remote Syslog configuration to work when you have already done your vCloud installation.

These are the steps that I took last week to enable Remote Syslog after installation and configuration

  1. Stop the vCD Cloud cell using command service vmware-vcd stop
  2. Edit the line “audit.syslog.host” and add your remote syslog server in the response.properties (normally located at /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc)
  3. Run the configuration script installation-file -r <path to response file> (installation file is the vCloud director installation binary)
  4. Edit the line “audit.syslog.host” and add your remote syslog server in the file global.properties (normally located at /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc)
  5. Restart the vCD Cloud cell using command service vmware-vcd start
  6. Watch your syslog server for entries

That it.  Hope this helps stop people completely re-building the vCloud environment.

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3 Responses to Enabling Remote Syslog with vCloud Director after installation

  1. Virgil August 22, 2011 at 12:40 am #

    How do I specify multiple syslog destinations?

  2. Antoine April 17, 2012 at 2:57 pm #

    “How do I specify multiple syslog destinations?”

    Is it possible ?

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