How to forward logs to a remote logging server for individual tenants in a NSX multi-tenant environment
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Products
VMware NSX
Issue/Introduction
- NSX multi-tenancy has been implemented in the environment using NSX Projects and VPCs.
- You want to know how to forward logs from an NSX Edge or Manager to a remote logging server for an individual tenant or tenants.
- This is required so you can extract logs and provide them to a tenant while ensuring you are not sharing logs\data from another tenant.
Environment
VMware NSX
Resolution
- If multi-tenancy has been implemented using NSX projects and VPCs then it is possible to forward multi-tenancy logs to a remote logging server. Please refer to the following Technical Document for details on how it can be done:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/nsx/vmware-nsx/4-2/administration-guide/operations-and-management/log-messages-and-error-codes/configure-remote-logging.html - The following is the relevant section from the Tech Doc:
- Specify the project and the VPC in the structured-data parameter. Example commands on a Edge would be the following:
set logging-server <server-ip> proto udp level err structured-data proj=<project-shortId>set logging-server <server -ip proto udp level err structured-data vpc=<vpc-shortId>
- Specify the project and the VPC in the structured-data parameter. Example commands on a Edge would be the following:
Additional Information
Refer to the NSX Multi-tenancy Technical Documentation for more details on NSX Project and VPC's
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