Troubleshooting your VMware Data Services Manager installation might involve generating a system log bundle on the DSM provider VM.
About System Logs
A system log bundle that you generate from the VMware Data Services Manager console aggregates relevant logs on the DSM provider VM, enabling faster diagnosis when the service faces an issue.
A system log bundle is a gzip
ed tar
file, and has the following file name format:
provider_logbundle.<YYYY-MM-DD>-<HHMMSS>.tar.gz
Generating a System Log Bundle
You generate a system log bundle to review activities or to diagnose errors in the VMware Data Services Manager service.
Procedure
Results
The newly-generated log bundle is added to the table. You can identify the bundle by its Creation Time.
Downloading a System Log Bundle
You can download a system log bundle to your local host for review and analysis, or to provide to VMware support. The timestamps of downloaded log bundles display time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Perform the following procedure to download a service log bundle.
Procedure
Deleting a System Log Bundle
Delete one or more system log bundles when you no longer require the data.
Procedure
Results
VMware Data Services Manager deletes the bundles and removes them from the table.