{"id":616,"date":"2015-02-04T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:33:35","slug":"vmhost-advanced-settings-are-case-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"vmhost Advanced Settings are case sensitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Configuring some ESX hosts with PowerCLI and was setting syslog to my loginsight server. I kept getting errors advising that the Syslog.Global.LogHost option does not exist.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nPS H:\\Scripts&gt; $vmhost = Get-VMHost -Name ESX01\r\nPS H:\\Scripts&gt; Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vmhost -Name Syslog.Global.LogHost\r\nGet-AdvancedSetting : 4\/02\/2015 9:04:48 AM Get-AdvancedSetting &quot;Syslog.Global.LogHost&quot; option doesn't exist.\r\nAt line:1 char:1\r\n+ Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vmhost[0] -Name Syslog.Global.LogHost\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-AdvancedSetting], InvalidName\r\n+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_SystemManagementServiceImpl_ConvertToHashtable_OptionNotFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetAdvancedSetting\r\n   \r\n.   \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I know this option exists I can see it in the GUI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Advanced.Syslog.global.logHost.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Advanced.Syslog.global.logHost.png\" alt=\"Advanced Settings Syslog global logHost\" width=\"361\" height=\"176\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Advanced.Syslog.global.logHost.png 361w, https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Advanced.Syslog.global.logHost-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It then dawned on me that, no surely it couldn&#8217;t be, yes, yes it is. Case sensitive.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nPS H:\\Scripts&gt; Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vmhost[0] -Name Syslog.global.logHost\r\n\r\nName                 Value                Type                 Description                   \r\n----                 -----                ----                 -----------                   \r\nSyslog.global.log...                      VMHost\r\n   \r\n.   \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So a little trap for young players.<\/p>\n<p>Set syslog server.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n$vmhost = Get-VMHost -Name ESX01\r\n#To add multiple syslog servers separate via a comma (,)\r\n[string]$SysLogServers = &quot;udp:\/\/loginsight.home.local:514&quot;\r\nGet-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vmHost -Name Syslog.global.logHost | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $SysLogServers -Confirm:$false\r\n   \r\n.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Environmental Information<\/strong>:<br \/>\nESX 5.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Configuring some ESX hosts with PowerCLI and was setting syslog to my loginsight server. I kept getting errors advising that the Syslog.Global.LogHost option does not exist. I know this option <a href=\"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/?p=616\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[73],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-powercli","category-scripting","tag-syslog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemillion.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}