My colleague Dale wrote about the addition of the Filter Hash property introduced in NSX 6.2.4. This helps identify the the filter used on the vNIC. His examples show the ability to use the CLI to determine it. The filter…
The missing query Log Insight provides content packs that come chocked full of queries, alarms, and dashboards for users of specific products. They cover networking, security, storage, hardware, servers and more. A recent update to the NSX for vSphere content…
Just a small note – another version for NSX for vSphere. Some good improvements. Check out some of the better ones below. The release notes have more. More to come in some following blogs. What’s new? Expanding physical connectivity options— by…
Building on a couple of recent blog posts I have made some PowerShell functions that wrap elements of the Log Insight JSON REST API. Using a mixture of PowerCLI, PowerNSX, and Power LogInsight commands it is possible to deploy Log…
PowerNSX has been a focus of mine for a little while. I also have a penchant for Log Insight. I like the product. I have outlined previously a blog here for approaching the segmentation of any application with Log Insight…
VMworld Public voting is on now. There is information about each session and public members are encouraged to vote for interesting sessions. Alas there is not author detail about who is presenting or additional information that was asked for when…
The other week I presented at both Melbourne and Sydney VMware User Group conferences. This was a one day conference that consists of vendors, community, and partner presentation. The focus is on technical content for users by users. I submitted…
Darrel: What do you call this love? Sal: Ice cream. Darrel: But yeah, it’s what you do with it. Dale: How do you do it mum? Sal: Scooped it out of the punnet! The above is a quote…
Log Insight gives you the incredibly powerful RegEx searching powered by what Java can support. You can search for fields to extract and correlate from events. The power of combining these together can yield data that is contextual, relevant, and…
Active Directory (AD) integration into Log Insight (LI) allows you to provide Role based access control to the management, administration, and operations of your log platform. The user that binds LI to AD will be used to verify AD users…
You have a firewall between your management network and your administrative network right? You use active-directory authentication yeah? Well, funny as it may seem, the information gathered by your logging infrastructure is very sensitive. It contains verbose output regarding the…
Log ALL the things With the importance of logging on the increase you need to ensure you have a distributed log management system that can ingest thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of inputs per second. The Log Insight log…
Log Insight provides log management, aggregation and visual representation of events within both the physical and virtual network. It has the ability to manage the logs of thousands of distributed devices and systems and allow administrators a simplified portal for…