Smarts Syslog Adapter: How do you enable debug logging for the Smarts Syslog adapter?

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How do you enable debug logging for the Smarts Syslog adapter?

Problem in the Smarts Syslog adapter and the regular logs are not providing enough information

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

To enable debug logging for the Smarts Syslog adapter, you do either of the following:

• Add the following switch to the sm_adapter startup command: --traceServer
• Switch on debugging of the actual parser file that the syslog adapter uses in the syslog_mgr.asl as follows:
  
  default debug = TRUE;
  
  In the syslog_mgr.asl file you can see what will be written in debug mode by searching for "if (debug)".