You can configure the services for VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics running on the appliance.

A web server and an application server together are responsible for providing UI and diagnostics capabilities of the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics. The server is implemented in the form of services whose settings are auto configured. You need not change the settings unless the technical support guides you.

Note:
All the services are configured to auto start on the system startup.

Server Component

Service Name

Description

Web server

Nginx

It provides web user interface through the browser.

Application Server

vmware-shd

Handles upload and diagnostics for log bundles.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you have root user credentials for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance.

  • For more information about enabling the root user log in to the VMware Photon OS, see: https://vmware.github.io/Photon/assets/files/html/3.0/Photon_troubleshoot/permitting-root-login-with-ssh.html (This configuration is not necessary for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance as by default it is configured to allow root user log in through SSH).

  • Verify that you can log in using root credentials to the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance console.

Procedure

  1. Open the Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance console using the VMware vSphere client or Secure Shell (SSH) client.
  2. Log in as root user.
  3. Run command systemctl to start, stop, restart, and check status systemctl start|status|restart|stop SERVICE_NAME.

Results

The service is started, restarted, or stopped as per the input parameters.