Stopping, starting, or restarting services in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

Products

VMware

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information on how to manage vCenter server appliance using the service-control command. This can be accessed through the Appliance Shell or BASH Shell.

Resolution

Service-control

To view the available commands, run the service-control --help command:

# service-control --help
usage: service-control [-h] [--start] [--stop] [--status] [--list] [--list-services] [--vmon-profile VMON_PROFILE] [--all] [--ignore] ...

Perform operation on VMware services. By default, the services selected are based on current startup profile.
This can be overridden by using --all and --vmon-profile options.

Positional arguments:
services services on which to operate optional arguments:

Arguments	Description
-h,--helpshow	Help message and exit
--startPerform	Start operation on VMware services
--stop	Perform stop operation VMware services
--status	Get running status of VMware services
--list	List all controllable VMware services Note: This option will soon be deprecated. Only use --list-services.
--list-services	Lists all controllable VMware services
--vmon-profile	VMON_PROFILE
--all	Services associated with given profile name. Start/Stop all VMware services that is core and the default mgmt services
--ignore	Ignore errors. Continue with given operation even if errors occur.

To list the services installed on the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, run the service-control --list-services command:

# service-control --status

Running:

applmgmt lwsmd pschealth vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmdnsd vmonapi vmware-cis-license vmware-cm vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-perfcharts vmware-psc-client vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-sts-idmd vmware-stsd vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-client vsphere-ui

Stopped:

vmcam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-mbcs vmware-netdumper vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-vcha

To query the same but for an individual service, run the service-control --status service_name command:

# service-control --status vmware-cm

Running: vmware-cm

To stop an individual VMware service, run the service-control --stop service_name command:

# service-control --stop vmware-cm

To start an individual VMware service, run the service-control --start service_name command:

# service-control --start vmware-cm

To stop all the VMware services, run the service-control --stop --all command:

# service-control --stop --all

To start all the VMware services, run the service-control --start --all command:

# service-control --start --all

Note: There is no service-control --restart command.

Photon OS

For Photon OS service manipulation, use the following commands instead of their SLES counterparts. These commands must be used from the BASH Shell.

Photon OS Commands	SLES Commands
systemctl start <service>	service <service> start
systemctl stop <service>	service <service> stop
systemctl restart <service>	service <service> restart
systemctl reload <service>	service <service> reload
systemctl condrestart <service>	service <service> condrestart
systemctl status <service>	service <service> status
systemctl enable <service>	chkconfig <service> on
systemctl disable <service>	chkconfig <service> off
systemctl daemon-reload	chkconfig <service> --add
systemctl list-units --type service --all	chkconfig --list <service name>
systemctl is-enabled <service>	chkconfig --list vmware-tools-services

Additional Information

Stopping, Starting or Restarting VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x services
vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 でのサービスの停止、起動、または再起動
停止、启动或重新启动 vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 中的服务