Hello,
I was enabling SNMP via SSH and unfortunately the host has become unresponsive. I can ping the host, I can SSH on to the host and I can see the VMs are still running on the host via esxtop so I'm not overly worried. I'm planning to reboot the host this evening but I want to confirm that HA will take over and move the VMs before shutting down the host. I'm beginning to lean towards a 'no' in that respect.
I can't connect to the host via the vSphere C# client. I've tried services.sh restart but it seems to halt on:
~ # /sbin/services.sh restart
Running vmware-fdm stop
Stopping vmware-fdm:success
Running bfa_cfg.sh stop
Running xorg stop
Running wsman stop
Stopping openwsmand
Openwsmand is not running.
Running sfcbd stop
This operation is not supported.
Please use /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop
Running snmpd stop
root: snmpd is not running.
Running sfcbd-watchdog stop
sh: bad number
sh: you need to specify whom to kill
sfcbd is not running.
I've also tried esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enabled=true but I get nothing from that. If I tail -f hostd.log I get the following:
2013-01-09T13:07:01.805Z [343C2B90 verbose 'SoapAdapter'] Responded to service state request
2013-01-09T13:07:05.043Z [32D40B90 verbose 'ThreadPool'] usage : total=24 max=74 workrun=22 iorun=2 workQ=178 ioQ=0 maxrun=29 maxQ=180 cur=I
2013-01-09T13:07:05.043Z [32D40B90 verbose 'ThreadPool'] usage : total=24 max=74 workrun=22 iorun=2 workQ=178 ioQ=0 maxrun=29 maxQ=180 cur=I
2013-01-09T13:07:05.043Z [32D40B90 verbose 'Default'] CloseSession called for session-ec6d-8ec1-5bac-7b6991c2c0c6
Also I'm not sure if this is of any consequence but:
tail -f vpxa.log
2013-01-09T13:27:11.018Z [6F477B90 verbose 'vpxavpxaAlarm' opID=SWI-b21bd4db] [VpxaAlarm] VM with vmid = 23 not found
2013-01-09T13:27:21.019Z [6F477B90 verbose 'vpxavpxaMoVm' opID=SWI-b21bd4db] [VpxaMoVm::CheckMoVm] did not find a VM with ID 23 in the vmList
I'm also unable to connect to the host via the PowerCLI.
I've read that I could check to see if xinetd is running but so far I've been unsucessful in that aspect. So I'm a little stumped and any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
if you shutdown the esx host the HA will kick in... and the vms will migrated to another host... I am sure.
give moredetails about the vmkernel log... tail it... and see what is the error which you see when you try to start the vc agents
also refer the below links to restart the trouble shoot the agents
Thanks,
I've had a good look through all of those, nothing there has helped. I'm going to attempt an out of hours restart and look at reinstalling ESXi.
I know you're planning a restart to solve the issue...
But does the command stat -f filesystem_name give you anything?
Could you be more specific?
I tried:
/var/log # stat -f /vmfs/volumes/4ea55615-9746ca85-f8dd-001b24937f92/GFI.vmx
stat: can't read file system information for '/vmfs/volumes/4ea55615-9746ca85-f8dd-001b24937f92/GFI.vmx': No such file or directory
I was trying to refer to a KB I've read recently but couldn't find it at the time I wrote previous post ...
It just came up in my mind because you mentioned SNMP, but since your SNMP isn't really configured yet (if I don't misunderstand your post) it could be a long shot of course ...
Ahhh I see.
No you haven't misunderstood at all. I was configuring SNMP via SSH on the other hosts ( /etc/vmware/snmp.xml) and all was going swimmingly until I hit this particular host when things went south.
I remembered that command and the fact you could see something like Inodes: Total: 0 Free: 0
But now I've found the KB, so that's easier ...
Anyway, couldn't hurt to check it out, as I said, might be a long shot.