VMware View: Login, disconnect, reconnect, and logout logs

[Cerulean]

Greetings,

What is the best way to provide logs to Human Resources when they request to know two weeks worth of when a specific employee logs in, disconnects, reconnects, and logs out of their VDI? Our environment is powered by PCoIP & VMware View. I know VMware View has these events but it truncates to 2000 events (and for our environment that covers less than a day's worth of activity).

Is there a log viewer out there or a way to pipe events to something like Splunk?

 

[shade91]

Greetings,

What is the best way to provide logs to Human Resources when they request to know two weeks worth of when a specific employee logs in, disconnects, reconnects, and logs out of their VDI? Our environment is powered by PCoIP & VMware View. I know VMware View has these events but it truncates to 2000 events (and for our environment that covers less than a day's worth of activity).

Is there a log viewer out there or a way to pipe events to something like Splunk?

Yeah the logging isn't the greatest but Splunk does have native plugins to monitor VDI.

 

[bmh.01]

All that should be in the view events database should it not? Easy SQL query.

 

[SpaceHonkey]

All that should be in the view events database should it not? Easy SQL query.

Yep, it's in the dbo.event table.