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darkprisco
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vmware/openvmware tools heartbeat functionality

Hey guys,

I am looking for VMWare tools documentation, but as far as I understood, there is nothing "official", I hope I am wrong.

Anyway by looking to open-vm-tools, in https://github.com/drothlis/open-vm-tools/tree/master/lib/rpcOut in particular

I have interest  for the watchdog feature (if I understood correctly it is under these directories)

In the directories I have seen rpcIn and rpcOut that probably are modules I need for heartbeat, I have interest to know how I can compile just these one and install it on my machine.


Is not clear to me how this open-vm-tools work, I mean i.e if I wish to run the binary /rpctool$ ./vmware-rpctool "info-get", what are commands I can use??


Same question for ./services/vmtoolsd/vmtoolsd generated binary after ./compile & make phase.. how should I start the tool ??


This tool is powerful, but in this condition, without an official documentation, it seems I am blindly looking for..


Tks

Prisco



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