ESXi Services in vMA

[RanjnaAggarwal]

Is it possible to start or stop ESXi services from vMA?

[vfk]

What services are you intending to restart remotely?  You can use esxcli <conn_options> to connect esxi hosts from vma

[RanjnaAggarwal]

suppose ssh service of host.

[Wh33ly]

Yes this is possible with the use of a custom scripthostServiceManagement.pl

Copy the script to your VMA and go ahead! I tested it on VMA 5.1 and ESXi 5.1 hosts and works fine

Query the services

perl hostServiceManagemenet.pl --server server1.local.net --username root --operation query

Start the SSH service

perl hostServiceManagemenet.pl --server server1.local.net --username root --operation start --service TSM-SSH

Stop the SSH service

perl hostServiceManagemenet.pl --server server1.local.net --username root --operation stop --service TSM-SSH

[vfk]

well that is a good use of the api, nice work.