Restarting the Management agents in ESXi

Restarting the Management agents in ESXi and

Verifying that the Management Service is running

Restart Management agents in ESXi Using Direct Console User Interface (DCUI):
  1. Connect to the console of your ESXi host.
  2. Press F2 to customize the system.
  3. Log in as root.
  4. Use the Up/Down arrows to navigate to Troubleshooting Options > Restart Management Agents.
  5. Press Enter.
  6. Press F11 to restart the services.
  7. When the service restarts, press Enter.
  8. Press Esc to log out.
Restart Management agents in ESXi Using ESXi Shell or Secure Shell (SSH):
  1. Log in to ESXi Shell or SSH as root.

    For Enabling ESXi Shell or SSH, see Using ESXi Shell in ESXi 5.x and 6.x (2004746).
  2. Restart the ESXi host daemon and vCenter Agent services using these commands:

    /etc/init.d/hostd restart

    /etc/init.d/vpxa restart

  • To restart all management agents on the host, run the command:

    services.sh restart

Verifying that the Management Service is running


To verify if the ESX management service (vmware-hostd) is running:
  1. Log in as root to your ESX host with an SSH client. For more information, see Connecting to an ESX host using a SSH client (1019852).
  2. Run this command:

    ps -ef | grep hostd | grep -v grep
    The output appears similar to this if vmware-hostd is running: 
    [root@server]# ps -ef | grep hostd | grep -v grep
    root     23204     1  0 15:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s hostd -u 60 -q 5 -c /usr/sbin/hostd-support /usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u
    root     23209 23204  1 15:27 ?        00:04:23 /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/vmware-hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml -u
    [root@server]# 
    The output appears similar to this if vmware-hostd is not running:
    [root@server]# ps -ef | grep hostd | grep -v grep
    [root@server]#

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