Audit Messages - VMware VSHIELD APP 1.0 Admin Manual

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Audit Messages

Audit messages include fatal errors and other important audit messages and are logged to vmware.log. The
following conditions are logged as AUDIT messages:
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Thin agent initialization success (and version number.)
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Thin agent initialization failure.
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Successfully found SCSI device to communicate with the security virtual machine (SVM).
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Failure to create filter device object, or failure to attach to device stack.
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Established first time communication with SVM.
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Failure to establish communication with SVM (when first such failure occurs).
Generated log messages have the following substrings near the beginning of each log message: "vf-AUDIT",
"vf-ERROR", "vf-WARN", "vf-INFO", "vf-DEBUG".
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