VMware Cloud Director Availability Content Pack 2.1

We are glad to announce that the VMware Cloud Director Availability Content Pack for VMware Aria Operations for Logs 2.1 is now out there.

It helps the newest 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

Installation

The content material pack may be downloaded from the VMware Marketplace or immediately put in via the Marketplace menu in VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI > Content Packs.

Upgrade

If you already run an older model of the content material pack, you possibly can simply improve it to 2.1 by:

1. Navigating to the VMware Operations for Logs UI > Content Packs > Updates. You might be notified there may be an replace out there, and you’ll carry out it with a single click on.

2. Directly importing the brand new model from the VLCP file downloaded from the VMware Marketplace. It will result in updating the present one.

Log Collection

There are two methods to gather log data from VMware Cloud Director Availability:

• By setting the Syslog configuration in Events and Notifications via the Management 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 method. 

Now, with 2.1 and VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7, each strategies for log assortment may be chosen with no distinction. 

Note: If you configure each on the identical time, it will result in duplicate information in VMware Aria Operations for Logs.

Agent Group Configuration

To apply the agent group configuration on the VMware Cloud Director Availability digital equipment, please comply with these steps:

1. Navigate to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI.
2. Go to Management > Agents.
3. Select the All Agents drop-down on the prime of the window.
4. Click the Copy Template button for the suitable VMware – VCDA agent group(s).

5. Add the right filters to specify which agent ought to get the configuration.

6. Click Refresh on the prime of the web page.
7. Click 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 technique to seize auditing data was by way of 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 can discover out the total particulars concerning the audit occasions within the documentation.

This is the way it appears within the log browser.