Hi guys,
we had some issues, restarting and migrating vm's on one esx-host. So I tried starting the management agents, like described in KB1003490 (VMware Knowledge Base ).
/etc/init.d/hostd restart seemed to work fine, but with
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart I got following output (after a long time):
watchdog-vpxa: Terminating watchdog process with PID 35024
vpxa stopped.
So I thought the vpxa ist not running and tried to start with "/etc/init.d/vpxa start" , but esx says, that the service is running.
I tried to repeat the procedure, but the vpxa-restart hangs with following output:
/etc/init.d/vpxa restart
watchdog-vpxa: PID file /var/run/vmware/watchdog-vpxa.PID does not exist
watchdog-vpxa: Unable to terminate watchdog: No running watchdog process for vpxa
vpxa stopped.
It would be fine, if there would be a solution, without downtime, because there are still VMs running.