• VMWARE machine: Processors and threads

    Hello, Considering to run lastest LOGGER 7.3, ArcMC 3.2 and SmartConnector 8.4 in a VMWARE VM machine, what is the best performances we'll get setting the vm "numbers of Processors" and "Numbers of cores per processor"? Example: 1 processor with 4…
  • RE: [SmartConnector] VMware Web Services

    Hello, I can see this post is pretty old, but have you resolved it somehow? I'm getting same error on connector 7.8, and customer tells me that only vcenter was upgraded from 5.5 to 6.5. I asked them to mail me a new certificate, imported it, but it's…
  • Moving From Appliance to Virtual

    Hello Everyone, We are looking to move from appliances to a virtual environment. I know there is a Logger image available to use but does anyone know if this is available in a VMDK? As there is not an image for ArcMC or ESM could someone please point…
  • VMware vShield parser

    Our network security team is in the process of starting to test out using VMware vShield in our VMware environments and they want to capture the logs. I set up a syslog listener and since there is no supported parser, it of course came in with everything…
  • VMware ESXi audit log events

    I am trying to figure out if there is a possibility/need to select the event types to be logged on an ESXi server? Or is this not possible (or so I understand so far) and do you only have to specify the remote syslog server? ( Syslog.global.logHost )…
  • Thin Provisioning

    Interesting question this. Has anyone tried deploying ESM 6c using thin provisioning? Given the extreme adversion to I/O restrictions in ESM deployments, I would imagine it's rare. However, for a customer with very low load and uncertain dimensioning…
  • Connector for collecting VMWare view events

    Hi. I've been tasked to audit our VMWare View environment into our arcsight deployment. I have found that view logs its events into a SQL database. Has anyone every written a smart connector to pull these events. These are important for our external environment…
  • [SmartConnector] VMware Web Services

    I was looking through the VMwareWebServicesConfig.pdf in SmartConnector Guide 5.2.3.6281. in order to obtain the logs, we need to specify the following in the connector: host (hostname of the vSphere server) username: password: my question would be, what…
  • Arcsight SmartConnector for EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager

    Hi!, I was wondering whether anybody has experimented with being able to retrieve messages either via SYSLOG or via Web Services on EMC's Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) system that they use to adminster vBlock infrastructure. The system basically…
  • ESXi 5 logging.

    I have configured ESXi 5 for syslog logging, but ESM dosent recoginze it as ESX, for him its Unix, I have new 6063 content upgrade in connectors. so the parses should be there. Has anyone got it to work proprly? If yes, how?
  • Monitoring VMware ESX servers

    Hi *, Anybody out there who has a deeper understanding of monitoring VMware ESX servers? Till just send my some log snippets: Jan 6 09:25:33 100.1.1.92 Hostd: [2010-01-06 09:25:33.082 45A54DC0 info 'ha-eventmgr'] Event 7 : User root logged out Jan 6 09…