In this post, I am providing steps in brief to restart the Management Agents on ESXi Hosts using 2 methods : Either by connecting to the Host via a Secure SSH Putty Session OR by taking a remote session of the ESXi Host.
Please note that by restarting the Management Agents, there is no impact to running VMs on this Host, It restart the Management Services which help in communicating with VCenter this Host is connected to.
A) By SSH Putty Session
Run the following commands to restart the Management Agents
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart
To check the status of these agents, run the following commands
/etc/init.d/hostd status
/etc/init.d/vpxa status
B) From Remote Console
- Connect to the console and Press F2 to Login
- Enter Root Username and Password
- Navigate to Troubleshooting Mode Options -> Restart Management Agent and Press Enter
- Press F11 to confirm the Management Agent Status
Its hostd not httpd... Plz correct.!
ReplyDeleteThanks Buddy. I have corrected it in the post. Goofed up between apache httpd service and Esxi management services
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