Accessing VMware Bitfusion logging
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Accessing VMware Bitfusion logging

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Article ID: 316473

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

VMware Bitfusion processes log in various locations and systems on both the client and server. These file locations or processes and purposes are defined here.


Environment

VMware vSphere Bitfusion 2.x

Resolution

Bitfusion has application-specific logs and also makes use of various system logs depending on function.

Node

Log File

Purpose

Client

~/.bitfusionio/bf_Global.log

Main Bitfusion application log

Client

/var/log/<kern|dmesg|messages>.log

Nvidia GPU messages

Client

/var/log/syslog.log

Container-related messages


On the server you can get filtered syslog messages with journalctl.
$ sudo journalctl -u bitfusion-manager.service




 

Additional Information

Accessing the vApp options from with the appliance
vmtoolsd --cmd 'info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv’

Check the health of the node
sudo bitfusion localhealth > bf-health.txt

Bitfusion service log (Bitfusion and Bitfusion manager are two services)
sudo journalctl -a -t bitfusion

Cluster membership status
nodetool status

Cassandra Logs
/var/opt/cassandra/logs/system.log

Bitfusion-manager configuration
/etc/bitfusion/bitfusion-manager.yaml