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
Here are some useful service log locations:
|
Log file name |
Location |
Purpose |
|
vcops-watchdog.log |
/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/log/vcops-watchdog/ |
Stores log information for the WatchDog service |
