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 five minutes by means of the cops-watchdog-daemon with the purpose of monitoring the various vRealize Operations services, including the Cluster and Slice Administrator (CaSA).
The Watchdog service performs the following checks:
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