vSphere Replication
Log Files

The files that contain system messages are located in the
vSphere Replication
virtual appliance.
File Location
Description
/opt/vmware/hms/logs/hms-configtool.log
Used to log errors that occurred during the
Interfaz de VRMS Appliance Management
configuration.
/opt/vmware/hms/logs/hms.
n
.log.gz
Used to track the runtime information of
vSphere Replication
Management server. The most recent log file is labeled
hms.log
, and
hms.
n
.log.gz
files contain older log messages. The file with the highest
n
value contains the most recent messages.
/var/log/vmware/
The folder contains the
vSphere Replication
server log files. Used to track replication problems.
/opt/vmware/support/logs/dr-client/dr.log
Site Recovery
user interface logs.
/opt/vmware/hms/logs/hms-audit.log
vSphere Replication
audit logs.

Log Messages Related to Security

The
/opt/vmware/hms/logs/hms.log
file contains login and logout event messages, authorization error messages, and certificate verification error messages in the following format.
  • Login message
    2015-03-23 15:54:05.558 DEBUG jvsl.security.authentication.sessionmap [tcweb-5] (..security.authentication.SessionMap) operationID=087657ec-ef0f-494c-9739-a4af62a5c049-HMS-1033 | Adding new session to the session map:com.vmware.hms.security.authentication.HmsUserSession@234f4bed:[
    com.vmware.vim.binding.hms.UserSession:
    key = site_...1b034,
    userName = root,
    fullName = root ,
    loginTime = ...,
    lastActiveTime = ...,
    hmsServers = null,
    locale = en,
    messageLocale = en
    ]
  • Logout message
    15-03-23 15:54:05.585 INFO jvsl.security.authorization [tcweb-8] (..security.authorization.SessionAuthorizer) | HmsSessionManager.HmsSessionManagerLogout called on session-manager by root@/10.26.233.124:50776 with opId 43263a64-1681-4459-a921-1d9406308dc8-HMS-1036
  • Authorization message
    2015-06-25 16:10:35.994 INFO jvsl.security.authorization [tcweb-5] (..security.authorization.SessionAuthorizer) | Authorization for method "HmsRemoteSiteManager.HmsRemoteSiteManagerFindHmsServer" failed.
    (vim.fault.NoPermission) {
    faultCause = null,
    faultMessage = null,
    object = MoRef: type = HmsRemoteSiteManager, value = site-manager, serverGuid = 18327b1a-dac2-44d9-972e-fa9dd99fce47,
    privilegeId = HmsRemote.com.vmware.vcHms.Hms.View
    }
  • Certificate verification error message
    2015-06-25 16:19:13.794 WARN jvsl.sessions [hms-main-thread-1] (..hms.net.ServerRegistryHms) | Can not start HMS connection to remote site 'some-address.com'
    java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.SslException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.VlsiCertificateException: Server certificate chain is not trusted and thumbprint doesn't match