ESXI- how to use shell.log

Shell.log is the one of the log file which helps us to resolve problems and in some scenarios it will help us to do the audit process.

Example 1

1. With the below example we can see that per-worker-01a vm is runnin on esx-01a.

In few hours later we can notified that vm has powered off. We could nt find any logs in vCenter or in the os level.

What we can do is we can check the shell.log file. If someone has powered off the vm using command line on the ESXi , we can find the details.

In the above shell.log file we can see that someone has tried to power off this vm.

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