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Activity tracking events for VMware Solutions

Activity tracking events for VMware Solutions

IBM Cloud® services, such as IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions, generate activity tracking events.

Activity tracking events report on activities that change the state of a service in IBM Cloud. You can use the events to investigate abnormal activity and critical actions and to comply with regulatory audit requirements.

You can use IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing, a platform service to route auditing events in your account to destinations of your choice by configuring targets and routes that define where activity tracking events are sent. For more information, see About IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing.

You can use IBM Cloud Logs to visualize and alert on events that are generated in your account and routed by IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing to an IBM Cloud Logs instance.

Locations where activity tracking events are generated

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions generates activity tracking events in the regions that are indicated in the following table.

Regions where activity tracking events are generated in Americas locations
Dallas (us-south) Washington (us-east) Toronto (ca-tor) Sao Paulo (br-sao)
Yes Yes Yes No
Regions where activity tracking events are generated in Asia Pacific locations
Tokyo (jp-tok) Sydney (au-syd) Osaka (jp-osa) Chennai (in-che)
Yes No No No
Regions where activity tracking events are generated in Europe locations
Frankfurt (eu-de) London (eu-gb) Madrid (eu-es)
Yes No No

Events for VCF for Classic instance management

When you manage user accounts, instances, clusters, and services in VMware Solutions, an event is generated.

The following table provides the actions that generate and send management events to Activity Tracker.

Description of actions that generate management events
Action Description
vmware-solutions.account-apikey.update The infrastructure API key for an account is updated.
vmware-solutions.account-notification.update The notification setting for an account is updated.
vmware-solutions.instance-secure-data.wipe The instance-secure data is wiped.
vmware-solutions.instance-bss-account.migrate An instance is migrated to a BSS account.
vmware-solutions.vcs.create A VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic instance is created.
vmware-solutions.vcs.delete A VCF for Classic instance is deleted.
vmware-solutions.vcs-host.add A host is added to a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-host.remove A host is removed from a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs.update A VCF for Classic instance is updated.
vmware-solutions.vcs-cluster.create A cluster is created for a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-cluster.delete A cluster is deleted for a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-nsx-license.update The VMware NSX® license is updated for a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-nfs-storage.add NFS storage is added to a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-nfs-storage.remove NFS storage is removed from a VCF for Classic instance.
vmware-solutions.vcs-plan.update A VCF for Classic instance's plan is updated.
vmware-solutions.vss.create A VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Flexible instance is created.
vmware-solutions.vss.update A VCF for Classic - Flexible instance is updated.
vmware-solutions.vss-template.remove A VCF for Classic - Flexible template is removed.
vmware-solutions.service.create A service is created.
vmware-solutions.service.delete A service is deleted.

Events for KMIP for VMware

When you manage keys for the KMIP™ for VMware® service, an event is generated.

The following table provides the actions that generate and send events for KMIP for VMware. The initiator completes these actions from vCenter Server and they do not include the initiator's IP address. The requests for these actions run from within the IBM Cloud private network.

The initiator ID is derived from the TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate of the vCenter Server that is used to authenticate the connection to the KMIP server. The initiator ID is in the format CertificateID-<value>, where the value matches the fingerprint of the corresponding TLS certificate. Using the fingerprint, you can identify the vCenter Server that triggered the action.

Description of actions that generate events for the KMIP for VMware service
Action Description
vmware-solutions.kmip-key.create A KMIP key is created.
vmware-solutions.kmip-key.read A KMIP key is retrieved.
vmware-solutions.kmip-key-attributes.retrieve A KMIP key's attributes are retrieved.
vmware-solutions.kmip-key.activate A KMIP key is activated.
vmware-solutions.kmip-key.revoke A KMIP key is revoked.
vmware-solutions.kmip-key.destroy A KMIP key is destroyed.

Events for VMware Shared

As of 28 March 2024, VMware Shared is not available for new deployments and support for existing instances ended on 28 February 2025. As of 4 March 2025, all VMs are powered off and on 6 April 2025, all customer and management data will be deleted. To avoid permanent deletion of your VMware Shared backups and to migrate your VMware Shared resources to IBM Cloud® for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service, open an IBM Support ticket by 6 April 2025. For more information, see End of Support for VMware Shared deployments.

When you use VMware Shared, an event is generated to track how users and applications interact with virtual data centers.

The following table lists the actions that generate and send an event to Activity Tracker.

Description of actions that generate VMware Shared events
Action Description Outcome
vmware-solutions.vdc.create An event is generated when a virtual data center instance is created. pending
success
failure
vmware-solutions.vdc.delete An event is generated when a virtual data center instance is deleted. pending
success
failure
vmware-solutions.vdc.update An event is generated when capacity is added to a virtual data center instance.
An event is generated when capacity is removed from a virtual data center instance.		 pending
success
failure