Location of vCenter Server SMTP mail log files

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 5.0
• VMware vCenter Server 6.0
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

• To locate vCenter Server using SMTP mail log files.

• In vCenter Server vpxd.log file contains entry similar to:
  
  <YYY-MM-DD>T<time> [05596 error 'win32vpxdMail_win32' opID=task-internal-17210-c6506a65] [VpxdMail] Failed to send the mail to SMTP server 10.#.#.# at port 25. Error=The transport failed to connect to the server.-->
</time>

Resolution

The errors for SMTP mail alerts appear in the vpxd.log file, located at:

• vCenter Server 5.x and earlier versions on Windows 2003 Server – %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\
• vCenter Server 5.x and earlier versions on Windows 2008 Server and up – C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\
• vCenter Server 5.x Linux Virtual Appliance – /var/log/vmware/vpx/
• vCenter Server 6.x and higher versions on Windows server: C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\Logs\<Service Name>
• vCenter Server Appliance 6.x: /var/log/vmware/<Service Name> 
• vCenter Server Appliance 7.x: /var/log/vmware/<Service Name> 
• vCenter Server Appliance 8.x: /var/log/vmware/syslog/syslog.log