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7 Replies Last post: Mar 13, 2007 8:36 PM by kaychan

How to restart VC management agent on ESX host posted: Mar 13, 2007 11:55 AM

kaychan

373 posts since
Apr 9, 2005

Hi,

I was told that if we apply the patch2 of VC, it will force a agent updates on the host and has been inconsistent in successfully upgrading all of the hosts. Some of the hosts will be left in a dicsonnect state until the agent has been updated and restarted. This will require a mnaual restart of the management agent on the host to upgrade the VC agent.

Could someone tell me the commend to manually restart the management agent on the host??

Thanks.

Re: How to restart VC management agent on ESX host

1. Mar 13, 2007 12:26 PM

in response to: kaychan

Jwoods

574 posts since
Jul 14, 2005

[code]service mgmt-vmware restart[/code]

Re: How to restart VC management agent on ESX host

2. Mar 13, 2007 12:35 PM

in response to: Jwoods

kaychan

373 posts since
Apr 9, 2005

Thank you so much.

Re: How to restart VC management agent on ESX host

3. Mar 13, 2007 2:02 PM

in response to: kaychan

zemotard

569 posts since
Jan 9, 2006

Be carefull, a bug exists when you restart this service.
On the ESX 3.0.1 if you launch this command and if your VM are parametered to auto-restart, the ESX will power off your vm

This bug is known from the support, no patch available for this moment.

Regards.