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Verifying that the Management Service is running on an ESX host

Purpose

For troubleshooting purposes, it may be necessary to verify that the ESX Server management service (vmware-hostd) is running. This article provides you with the steps to check if the management service, also known as hostd, is running on your ESX Server host.

Resolution

To verify if the ESX Server management service (vmware-hostd) is running:

Log in as root to your ESX host with an SSH client.
Run the following command:

ps -ef | grep hostd

The output appears similar to the following if vmware-hostd is running:

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep hostd
root     23204     1 0 15:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/vmware-watchdog -s hostd -u 60 -q 5 -c /usr/sbin/hostd-support /usr/sbin/vmware-hostd -u
root     23209 23204 1 15:27 ?        00:04:23 /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/vmware-hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml -u
root     26450 26396 0 20:57 pts/3    00:00:00 grep hostd
[root@server]#

The output appears similar to the following if vmware-hostd is not running:

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep hostd
root     26659 26396 0 21:03 pts/3    00:00:00 grep hostd
[root@server]#

Additional Information

For more information on troubleshooting why the ESX Server management service (vmware-hostd) is not running, see Troubleshooting the VMware ESX Server Management Service when it will not start (1003561).

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KB Article: 1003494
Updated: Aug 14, 2009

Products:
VMware ESX
Product Versions:
VMware ESX 3.0.x
VMware ESX 3.5.x

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