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Verifying that the VirtualCenter Agent Service is running on an ESX host

Purpose

For troubleshooting purposes, it may be necessary to verify if the VirtualCenter agent Service (vmware-vpxa) is running. This article provides you with the steps to check if the Agent Service is running on your ESX Server.

Resolution

To verify if the VirtualCenter Agent Service (vmware-vpxa) is running:

Log in to your ESX Server as root, from an SSH session or directly from the console of the server.
Type ps -ef | grep vpxa .
Press Enter.
Type logout and press Enter to disconnect from the ESX Server after you have reviewed the output.

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

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep vpxa
root     24663     1 0 15:44 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/vmware/vpxa/bin/vmware-watchdog -s vpxa -u 30 -q 5 /opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa
root     26639 24663 0 21:03 ?        00:00:00 /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/vpxa
root     26668 26396 0 21:23 pts/3    00:00:00 grep vpxa
[root@server]#

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

[root@server]# ps -ef | grep vpxa
root 26709 26396 0 21:24 pts/3 00:00:00 grep vpxa
[root@server]#

Additional Information

For more information on troubleshooting why the VirtualCenter agent service (vmware-vpxa) is not running, see Troubleshooting the VirtualCenter agent service when it will not start (1006128) .

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KB Article: 1003495
Updated: Aug 14, 2009

Products:
VMware ESX
Product Versions:
VMware ESX 2.0.x
VMware ESX 2.1.x
VMware ESX 2.5.x
VMware ESX 3.0.x
VMware ESX 3.5.x

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