VMware ESX/ESXi
StandardVMware ESX/ESXi allows you to monitor and identify threats in your organization using the VMware ESX/ESXi data. VMware ESX/ESXi's dashboard provides visualization of event details for actions performed by the hosts or groups on virtual machines, authentication requests, and account management activities detected in your network.
Enhancements
Added and updated normalization signatures across several VMware normalization packages so log types that previously reached Guardsix SIEM without normalization, including healthdPlugins, envoy-access, and lsud entries, are now normalized.
Added a signature to the LP_Vmware ESX/ESXi Vpxd package that normalizes the first line of multi-line vpxd syslog events, including vim.event.VmReconfiguredEvent, that were previously ingested but left unnormalized.
Normalization currently covers the first line of each vpxd multi-line event; subsequent lines are not parsed by this signature.
Bug Fixes
VMware FIREWALL-PKTLOG firewall log entries weren't normalized.
VMware VmPoweredOffEvent syslog entries with a virtual machine name that contains a space weren't normalized.
Past Releases
Vmware ESX/ESXi v5.2.0 ▾
Enhancement
Bug Fix
VMware ESX/ESXi v5.1.0 ▾
Enhancement
VMware ESX/ESXi v5.0.2 ▾
Enhancements
Bug Fix
VMware ESX/ESXi v5.0.1 ▾
Enhancements
Support
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Hello,
Is it compatible for vcenter 6.5 logs ? Vpxd logs are not correctly parsed.
Thks
does anyone got this normalisation working? we got 2-3k logs in 30sec but no no logs are normalized.
We have several ESX Servers with vCenter
Hello,
We've got VCenter 6.5 and it (sort of) works - we get normlisations for the type of events from virtual center but not much else (OK, we haven't tried the esx normalisations yet)
Seems a couple of the latest norms don't work all that well, we're looking to do our own when we get some time.
Thanks for reply, i see that the hosts logs too much crap, i try to focus it to the vcenter only
We have it somewhat working aswell on ESXi 6.5.
FYI, I have a ticket (#9364) that you also could try to push, for a plugin support to poll logs from vCenter using the VMWare API.
No need to configure individual ESXi hosts that way as all logs are pulled from the vCenters. (I have this set up in an old system that we are migrating from to LogPoint)
Two helpful additional informations of the support:
1. The packages for VMware has been divided into several ones depending on process or service or event itself e.g. Hostd, syslog, etc . If you know which processes or services are generating logs then place them only in normalization policy. If not we recommend you to place all in normalization policy with generic packages at the end of normalization policy.
2. Actually, our initial implementation packaged all the process log into a single package LP_Vmware ESX/ESXi. Later we had split in process wise package. You can only use packages with the name of the process as they are the one which is updated periodically.
Third information:
3. LP_Vmware ESX/ESXi is the generic package. You can keep it at the end of norm policy along with other generic packages for generic normalization.