Event Logging and Notifications

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager captures events in the following log files:

• /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log contains all Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager UI crashes, Active Directory lookups, database issues, and other events.
• /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log is the log file for VDSM, the engine's agent on the virtualization host(s), and contains host-related events.

Within the Administration Portal, you can also view Alerts and Events in the Notification Drawer, which you can access by selecting the Bell icon in the upper-right corner.

The ovirt-log-collector tool lets you collect relevant logs from across the environment. To use the tool, you must sign in to the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager host as the root user and sign in to the Administration Portal with administration credentials.

The tool collects all logs from the Manager host, the Oracle Linux KVM hosts it manages, and the database.

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager provides event notification services that let you configure the Engine to notify specified users by email when certain events occur or to send Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps to one or more external SNMP manager with system event information to monitor the virtualization environment.

For more information about configuring event notifications, see Using Event Notifications in the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager: Administration Guide.