The process Syslogd is down, it will be restarted

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Event manager has a large number of events message - "The process Syslogd is down, it will be restarted"

Environment

NCM - v10.1.x

Resolution

• The following configuration can be checked from the System Management Console. Please refer to the corresponding version of the NCM Installation and System Management Console user guide documentation.

 

• The events that are logged when the syslog service is not running:

• The following event is logged - "The process Syslogd is down, it will be restarted":

• Below is the configuration file for monitoring the syslog service:

 /opt/smarts-ncm/sysadmin/config/serverConfig.xml is the configure file on this service 

• The below line for syslog and it monitoring the /var/run/sylogd.pid for the running service

</PidFile>syslogd.pid<MonitoredProcess processName="Syslogd" desiredState="Running" monitorType="pid" logLevel="Verbose"><PidFile>/var/run/

[root@ncm941 run]# ls -l syslogd.pid
-rw------- 1 root root 6 Dec 19 17:55 syslogd.pid
[root@ncm941 run]# pwd
/var/run

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