vRealize Log Insight - Role Based Access Control

Role Based Access Control let system administrators control user access to vRealize Log Insight. This post talks about the configuring RBAC with vRealize Log Insight and using it control the access to sections of vRLI UI.

RBAC can be configured with local users, as well with some central identity source (like Active Directory) based users as well 

vRLI used to offer integration using vIDM and direct Active Directory till v4.3. 
From v4.5 onwards AD integration is deprecated. The option is still available but for users to transition from AD to vIDM integration.

vRealize Log Insight - Retention Period Feature Request

Customer who are using vRealize Log Insight has a frequent query around Retention Period for logs. 
Currently to achieve a specific retention period, we need to calculate the Retention basis the log ingestion EPS and the sizing calculation for disk capacity.
Steve Flanders has written a good article around the same available here.

However it may not be necessary that we have a static environment and the log ingestion rate doesn't change. Hence the storage capacity calculation may need to be revisited.

It would be better if we can define retention period based for individual endpoints and possibly by just defining the retention time period value.

Hence i have voted for the Feature Request on loginsight.vmware.com

In case you find the requirement as a useful request, please share your vote for the same.

vRealize Log Insight - Capturing Application Logs

The more we talk about vRLI (vRealize Log Insight), the more are customers falling in love with it.

In today's enterprises either customers would have a generic syslog server-predominantly used for storing logs for future audits/analysis, or, would have an advanced log analytic tool.

vRealize Automation VMRC Console - Blank Black Screen

Most of you would already be aware of the "Connect using VMRC" option for a Virtual Machine through the vRealize Automation Self Service Console.

Its one of the most commonly used feature and i have never faced any challenges with it up until one of my customers complaint that they are getting a Black black screen while connecting with VMRC.

I immediately started thinking it towards a port problem.
VMRC through vRA uses TCP port 8444 from endpoint browser to VRA. So we tried a telnet and it worked...hence it wasn't a port issue.

vRealize Log Insight - vRealize Automation Content Pack Configuration

Recently i got a chance to deploy the vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) Content Pack (CP) for vRA.

I honestly thought configuring it would be as straight forward as its for configuring vSphere CP configuration. However there a few tasks which you would have to perform before you could actually use it. 
Actually this particular CP uses the Agent Group fundamentals to capture details from vRA constructs and put them across in the Dashboards.

vExpert 2017 Result Announcement

The much awaited vExpert 2017 results were out this morning. You can see the announcements on https://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2017/02/vexpert-2017-award-announcement.html

I am much delighted and thankful to the selectors for making me as a part of this coveted group once again this year. 
I also would like to thank readers and and community members for visiting my blogposts and following my posts on social networking sites (twitter and linkedin).


Ill continue working to the best of my capabilities and keep sharing as much as i can.

vRealize Operations with SDDC Health Management Pack v2.0

VMware announced SDDC Health Management Pack v2.0 for consumers of SDDC components.The VMware SDDC Management Health Management Pack 2.0 monitors the health of VMware SDDC components in the SDDC stack including the following

VMware vCenter Server
VMware vRealize Operations Manager
VMware vRealize Automation
VMware NSX for vSphere
VMware vSAN
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud
VMware vRealize Log Insight