VCF Operations Cluster Name and Log Forwarding

I was recently setting up Log Forwarding in VCF Operations 8.18.3, which looks like this.

Documentation for these fields can be found here. One thing to note is that the Host field expects the IP of your external log server, in my case the VCF Operations for Logs Primary Node IP.

The other interesting field here is Cluster Name, which is the VCF Operations Cluster Name. If you're ever wondering what your VCF Operations Cluster Name is, you can query the CASA API like this.

You don't explicity set the Operations Cluster Name, rather it assumes the name of the Primary Node at configuration time.

Back to our Operations Log Forwarding, once you've configured things, click APPLY CHANGES bottom right.

Over in Operations for Logs, you'll now start seeing logs that are tagged with that Cluster Name value.

The tag to look for is vmw_vr_ops_clustername. Hope this was helpful!