Accessing VMware Bitfusion logging

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