ESXi 5 syslog failed? Here how to restart it PowerCLI style

When any change is made the the syslog daemon on the ESXi Host a reboot or restart of the syslog daemon is required to get thing back on track. There is a couple ways you can restart the daemon but typically most people do it via CLI through SSH by issuing the command below:

esxcli system syslog reload

While there is nothing wrong with restarting the daemon this way, its quite annoying if you need to do this to a large number of ESXi Hosts. A much easier and fun way is to do it via PowerCLI using the Datacenter or Cluster variable.

Enjoy!

foreach ($esxhost in (Get-Datacenter -Name $Datacenter | Get-VMHost )){
    Write-Host "ESX: $esxhost"
    $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMhost $esxhost    
    $esxcli.system.syslog.reload()
}

or

foreach ($esxhost in (Get-Cluster -Name $cluster | Get-VMHost )){
    Write-Host "ESX: $esxhost"
    $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMhost $esxhost    
    $esxcli.system.syslog.reload()
}