The Management Pack for VMware Integrated OpenStack enables you to open selected objects in VMware Aria Operations for Logs, and view logging information for the object. OpenStack does not support automatic configuration of logging information, and if you want to forward logging information to Log Insight, you must configure the OpenStack host manually.

Prerequisites

Ensure that VMware Aria Operations for Logs is integrated with VMware Aria Operations. See the VMware Aria Operations for Logs documentation at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/log-insight-pubs.html.

Procedure

  1. On each host, locate the config file for OpenStack components.
    For example, /etc/nova/nova.conf, /etc/neutron/neutron.conf.
  2. In the config file, set the use_syslog parameter to true.
  3. Specify the forwarding host by running the following command in the /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf file. 
    # echo "*.* @@<loginsight-hostname>:514" >>
/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
# tail -1 /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
*.* @@<loginsight-hostname>:514
 # service rsyslog restart
    The name of your config file may be different, but the forwarding information you enter is the same.
  4. Restart OpenStack services on the host to apply the changes.

Results

OpenStack begins to forward logging information. Check VMware Aria Operations for Logs to see if the logs are being forwarded.