I was trying to find VMs with duplicate IPs in my environment. There's no easy way to do this in VCF Operations as you can't compare VM Properties to other VM Properties in Alerts/Symptoms, so I started looking at VCF Operations for Logs and found this Alert Definition. As the Origin indicates, this Alert Definition comes with the VMware - vSphere Content Pack. Go to Content Packs - Installed Content Packs (in my case as it's already installed) - Alerts tab. Scrolling down

I was recently doing some Log Filtering in my VCF Operations for Logs 9.0.2 lab and noticed some nuanced behavior, namely when filtering logs based on text, this is what I found. In Log Management - Log Filtering you'll notice this. I'm trying to filter out any logs/events with the string "logout" in them, so I configured a filter against the text field and matches logout. What caught my eye right away is that there are only two operators here: matches and does not match. Y

For those if you running VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.x, ever wonder what this is? Yea me too. Documentation can be found here, but I wanted a bit more detail, here's what I found. By default, the Target should be the Operations for Logs Cluster VIP or the Primary Node in the Logs Cluster. I've not found a use case where one would configure this to be another VIP in your logs Cluster. This IP/FQDN is used in a couple different places. First, when sending an email notificat

In VCF Operations 9 we've made the integration between VCF Operations and Operations for Logs even more robust. There are several different places you can view logs in VCF Operations, Infrastructure Operations - Analyze is the first. This provides the general logs viewing experience: y ou can search logs here, compare logs, save queries, use extracted fields, and more. This is similar to the experience from the Operations for Logs UI itself. The second place you'll find log

VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.6 just dropped , let's apply it! Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download this. In this lab I don't have Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, so we'll apply it locally. First, take a Snapshot of your VM/s. Then log into Operations for Logs and go to Management - Cluster. Select UPGRADE CLUSTER. Click UPGRADE and off we go. Agree to the EULA when asked. And we're done, took about 5m! Back on the Management - Cluster page it will look like thi

Operations 8.18 introduced this idea of the Cloud Proxy for log forwarding, which we discussed previously here . In VCF 9 Operations we...

I wanted to forward VCF 9 Operations related logs to VCF 9 Operations for Logs, but looks like its moved. Administration - Control Panel...

We previously upgraded Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9: first we did it directly then we did it via the Aria Suite Lifecycle...