Using
DiagnosticManager
The vSphere API
provides access to the
DiagnosticManager
, the service
interface for obtaining information from the log files and for generating
diagnostic bundles. The logs are populated based on configuration settings,
such as
info
,
trivia
, and so on.
The
DiagnosticManager
is a managed
object that works service-wide, rather than on a per-session basis. The
DiagnosticManager
has no
properties, but provides operations for these tasks:
- Obtaining information about the logs and how they have been defined.
- Generating a diagnostic bundle that can be sent to VMware support for analysis.
Figure 1
shows a UML class diagram for
DiagnosticManager
, which is
available on ESXi and vCenter Server systems.
DiagnosticManager Managed Object and
Associated Data Objects
As shown in
Figure 1,
DiagnosticManager
supports
these methods:
- BrowseDiagnosticLog
- GenerateLogBundleTask
- QueryDescriptions
The
DiagnosticManagerLogDescriptor.creator
property
contains the creator of the log, which is the system or subsystem that controls
a specific log.
The
creator
value is populated
from the
DiagnosticManagerLogCreator
enumeration. The following table lists all string values currently available
from the
DiagnosticManagerLogCreator
enumeration that can populate the
creator
property of the
DiagnosticManagerLogDescriptor
data object.
Name
| Description
|
|---|---|
hostd
| Host daemon
|
install
| Installation
|
recordLog
| System record log
|
serverd
| Host server agent
|
vpxa
| vCenter agent
|
vpxClient
| vSphere Client
|
vpxd
| vCenter service
|
Creator
| File Name
| Format
| Info.label
| Info.summary
| Key
| Mime Type
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hostd
| /var/log/vmware/hostd.log
| plain
| ESX Log
| ESX log in plain format
| hostd
| text/plain
|
hostd
| /var/log/messages
| plain
| ESX Log
| ESX log in plain format
| messages
| text/plain
|
hostd
| /var/log/vmkernel
| plain
| ESX Log
| ESX log in plain format
| vmkernel
| text/plain
|
hostd
| /var/log/vmksummary.txt
| plain
| ESX Log
| ESX log in plain format
| vmksummary
| text/plain
|
hostd
| /var/log/vmkwarning
| plain
| ESX Log
| ESX log in plain format
| vmkwarning
| text/plain
|
vpxa
| /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxa.log
| plain
| vCenter Agent Log
| vCenter agent log in
plain format
| vpxa
| text/plain
|