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Enabling debug logging in Lab Manager 4.x

This article provides steps to enable debug (verbose) logging in a VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4.x environment.

Caution: Only enable debug logging to gather data. Once the data is gathered, change the logging level back to normal.

To enable debug logging for the Lab Manager Server operating system:

Open the file C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Lab Manager\VSLA.Backend.Service.exe.config in a text editor.
Locate the entry for logging.

The entry for normal logging looks like:

<priority value="DEBUG"/>


Change it to the entry for debug logging. It looks like:

<priority value="DEBUG"/>
<appender-ref ref="BackendServiceDebugLogger"/>
<appender-ref ref="MonitorDebugLogger"/>
Save the file and close the text editor.

Note: This change takes effect immediately. The files BackendServiceDebug.log and MonitoringServiceDebug.log are created in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Lab Manager\Logs directory.
Open the file C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Lab Manager\WebSrvr\Web.config in a text editor.
Locate the entry for logging.

The entry for normal logging looks like:

<priority value="DEBUG"/>


Change it to the entry for debug logging. It looks like:

<priority value="DEBUG"/>
<appender-ref ref="DebugLogFile"/>
Save the file and close the text editor.
Change the logging levels back to normal when you are done gathering data.

To increase the number of log files that the Lab Manager Server will create:

Open the file C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Lab Manager\VSLA.Backend.Service.exe.config in a text editor.
Locate the entries labelled maxSizeRollBackups.
To increase the amount of logs to say 30, specifiy the value 30.
Save the file and close the text editor.

Note: The default value for the maxSizeRollBackups entry is 10.

To enable debug logging on the Lab Manager user interface:

To enable debug logging on Lab Manager agents on each ESX host:

In /etc/opt/vmware/vslad/vslad.xml, change the <config><log><level> element to trivia.
Restart the agent with the command:

/etc/opt/init.d/vslad restart

Note: The logs are in /var/log/vmware/vslad.

To increase the number of log files that the Lab Manager agent will create:

In /etc/opt/vmware/vslad/vslad.xml, change the values for the entries <maxFileNum> and <maxFileSize> to a higher value.
Restart the agent with the command:

/etc/opt/init.d/vslad restart

Note: The default values for <maxFileNum> and <maxFileSize> are that of 8 and 262144 respectively.

To enable debug logging on the Lab Manager installer, run the installer from the command line with the -V switch.

New files generated include:

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