Smarts: No Smarts services will start on a server

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:




No Smarts services will start on a server
Smarts services will not start on a server

Smarts ic-serviced daemon in the /etc/init.d directory on the server is stopped

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

The ic-serviced daemon is the Smarts "services" daemon, and must be started on the server for Smarts services to run.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, restart the ic-serviced daemon service by running the following command on the problem server:

/etc/init.d/ic-serviced start