This scenario has come up a couple of times with customers I have been working with and it is centered around the following situation/question . I have deployed 2 Log Insight platforms, one for each of my datacenters (assume one vCenter per DC). How do I get all the events in both Log Insight clusters … Continue reading Log Insight – Bi-Directional Event Forwarding
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Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
This is an interesting problem I encountered last week with an environment configured with native AD authentication within Log Insight. The version was 4.6.1 but the same behaviour can be found in version 4.7. Adding domain users to Log Insight directly via the native authentication enabled the domain user to log into Log Insight without … Continue reading Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
Log Insight – Replacing SSL Certificates
The following process has been illustrated using Log Insight version 4.6.1 however it is also the same for version 4.7. Log Insight comes configured out of the box with a self-signed certificate that is generated during the installation. For some customers this is fine however there normally comes a point when either the certificate expires … Continue reading Log Insight – Replacing SSL Certificates
Scaling Log Insight
vRLI can be deployed in a variety of configurations but in its most basic form it is just a single virtual appliance. This limits the number of supported agent connections, events per second, event storage capacity and overall system performance. In fact all deployment types have limitations, those limitations just have higher values as more … Continue reading Scaling Log Insight
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