Splunk for VMware features

Upgrade to this release to get all the latest benefits of Splunk for VMware. These include:

• Using installation tools to do automatic configurations:
  • logincreator.pl: This tool creates service accounts on your ESX/i hosts. You can also run it to check service account credentials. It can find valid service accounts on vCenter and all of its managed hosts or on a single host.
  • enginebuilder.py: This is a tool that you run to automatically create the engine.conf configuration files that determine the data to be collected from your environment.
  • credentials.pl: This is a tool you can use as the Splunkadmin user to obfuscate passwords in your engine.conf files.
• Automatically configure multiple FA VMs using the installation tools.
• In the Splunk Technology Add-on for VMware vCenter (Splunk_TA_vcenter) 1.0.2 we have extended the log collection capability for vCenter 5 to include more logs.

Splunk for VMware provides:

• Performance metrics directly from the vSphere hosts.
• Data persistence for analysis and trending.
• Analysis and reporting of vCenter (VC) tasks and events and ESX/ESXi logs.
• Easy correlation of virtualization layer data with data from other tiers such as applications/operating system information from inside virtual machines and the supporting hardware.
• Initial views for capacity reporting, security reporting and log browsing.
• Inventory views where you can monitor the components of your VMware environment.
• Performance views where you can monitor the performance of your hosts and virtual machines.
• The ability to control your data volume. For more information, see Controlling Data volumes.