Troubleshooting vRealize Operations components
Let's see what we can do to monitor and troubleshoot some of the key vRealize Operations components and services.
Services
Let's first take a look into some of the most important vRealize Operations services.
The Apache2 service
vRealize Operations internally uses the Apache2 web server to host Admin UI, Product UI, and Suite API. Here are some useful service log locations:
Log file name | Location | Purpose |
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| Stores log information for the Apache service |
The Watchdog service
Watchdog is a vRealize Operations service that maintains the necessary daemons/services and attempts to restart them as necessary should there be a failure. The vcops-watchdog
is a Python script that runs every 5 minutes by means of the vcops-watchdog-daemon
with the purpose of monitoring the various vRealize Operations services, including CaSA.
The Watchdog service performs the following checks:
- PID file of the service
- Service status
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