Tutorial - Vmware ESXi Syslog Configuration forward to remote collector

Tutorial - Vmware ESXi Syslog Configuration

First, you need to access the Vmware ESXi web interface.

Open a browser software, enter the IP address of your Vmware ESXi server and access web interface.

On the prompt screen, enter the administrative login information.
After a successful login, the Vmware ESXi dashboard will be displayed.

On the Vmware ESXiDashboard, Access the Manage Menu.
Access the System tab and select the Advanced settings option.

On the new screen, enter the Syslog configuration desired.
In our example, all log messages will be sent to the Syslog server udp://192.168.101.212:514.

Now, we need to configure the Vmware firewall to allow the Syslog connection.
On the Vmware Dashboard, Access the Networking Menu.
Access the Firewall rules tab.
Select the option named Syslog.
Click on the Actions button and select the Enable option.

Congratulations! You successfully finished the Vmware ESXi Syslog configuration.

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Hello Brother, Thanks for this steps. Can you please tell if we can send the logs to a different port. If yes what are the other configurations required. It would really help if you can answer this as no one is aware about this.