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vCloud Director Monitoring - Which processes to watch

vCloud Director Monitoring – Which processes to watch

Recently I wrote an article about Monitoring a vCloud Eco-System and a provided an overview of how you can monitor this Eco-system using vCenter Operations Manager and vFabric Hyperic.  Since that article was released people have been asking which processes and services they should monitor on the vCD cells to provide availability metrics. The table below shows which processes should be monitored.  The table also shows the location of the executable path. Process Name Executable Path vmware-vcd-watchdog /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ vmware-vcd-log-collection-agent /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ java /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/jre/bin/ privband /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ In-conjunction with the processes above, the three services listed below should also be monitored. vmware-guestd vmware-vcd-watchdog vmware-vcd-cell You can also monitor the availability of the http service of a vCD cell by following this url: https://{cellhostname}/cloud/server_status  This will show you the following output on screen if accessed through a web browser.  

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