[receiver/vcenter] add support for debug logging

[atoulme]

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receiver/vcenter

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Similar to how the Smart Agent monitor for vSphere does it, we would like to have the possibility to get debug log when running the vCenter receiver.

Describe the solution you'd like

This is the implementation of LogProvider for the monitor:
https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/blob/main/internal/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/vsphere/service/log_provider.go
It's set here:
https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/blob/6abbb60ece21f1089227b09397e9abb01bdc236a/internal/signalfx-agent/pkg/monitors/vsphere/service/auth.go#L65

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

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[hughesjj]

I can pick this one up

[hughesjj]

Not sure how useful the sfx implementation will be given the client we're using cannot be easily extended (unless we contribute upstream) and they have the notion of debugContainer available. Looks like they already save some responses in a similar fashion but to local files

Could I make a suggestion that we "better document how to debug and audit the vcenter receiver using existing configuration", or would you rather I try to poke some holes in the underlying soap client to wire up our own logger?

[hughesjj]

Nevermind, that implementation seems to overwrite things a lot, and I erroneously thought we were setting the provider in the soapclient and not vim25 client. Back to doing what was originally proposed.

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