Tuesday, August 6, 2013

How to verify that the vCenter Server Agent Service is running on an ESX host

Verifying that the vCenter Server Agent Service is running on an ESX host

For troubleshooting purposes, it may be necessary to verify if the vCenter Server Agent Service (vmware-vpxa) is running. 

1) Log in to ESX host using root credentials from Putty session or directly from the console.

2) Type "ps -ef | grep vpxa" -> press enter.

If vmware-vpxa is running, you see output similar to:

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep vpxa
root     24663     1  0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/vmware/vpxa/bin/vmware-watchdog -s vpxa -u 30 -q 5 /opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa
root     26639 24663  0 21:03 ?        00:00:00 /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/vpxa
root     26668 26396  0 21:23 pts/3    00:00:00 grep vpxa

If vmware-vpxa is not running, you see output similar to:

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep vpxa
root     26709 26396  0 21:24 pts/3    00:00:00 grep vpxa

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