Unable to remove Event Forwarder from vRealize Log Insight

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• When trying to remove and Event Forwarder, you receive the error message Error deleting destination and the screen times out.
• Your Event Forwarder name contains spaces.

Cause

This issue is cause by the Event Forwarder name containing spaces.

Resolution

This is a known issue affecting vRealize Log Insight.
Currently there is no resolution.

This issue will be resolved in a future vRealize Log Insight release.

Workaround:
To workaround this issue, create Event Forwarders without spaces, or underscores instead of spaces.

To delete existing Event Forwarders, remove the configuration in the vRealize Log Insight config page.

1. Navigate to https://LogInsightIPorFQDN/internal/config in a browser, and log in as the local admin user.
2. Locate the event-forwarding section.

Example:
  <event-forwarding>

    <target name="Event Forwarder Name">
      <host value="1.1.1.1" />
      <port value="9000" />
      <proto value="cfapi" />
      <ssl enabled="false" />
      <disk-cache-size value="104857600" />
      <worker-count value="8" />
      <forward-complementary-fields enabled="true" />
    </target>
  </event-forwarding>

3. Delete the entire <target></target> block for the forwarder you'd like to remove.  Note that each forwarder is represented by a single target block. In the case of removing a single configured Event Forwarder, the remaining forwarding configuration would be:

  <event-forwarding>
 </event-forwarding>
 

4. Click Save.