SSH – Read a content of a file
| more <LOG_FILE> | One page at a time spacebar to go to the next page |
| cat <LOG_FILE> | |
| tail <LOG_FILE> | Display the last part of the file -n Display the last <n> lines -f see the data appended to it |
SSH – Search in a file
| cat <LOG_FILE> | grep <search word> |
get location of logs
esxcli system syslog config getPowerCLI
Event Log types
get-logtypeSearch for a log entry
$hostd = get-log hostd | Select -ExpandProperty Entries
$hostd | select-string "volume"