Checking the uptime of the Collector in the ADM Appliance

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

This article provides steps for checking the uptime of the Collector in the ADM Appliance.

Environment

VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager 7.x
VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager 6.x
VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager 5.x

Resolution

To check the uptime of the Smarts ADM Appliance:

1. Run the uptime command at the prompt:
   
   [root@abcde019 /]# uptime
   
   11:56:40 up 7 days, 54 min, 1 user, load average: 0.71, 0.37, 0.29
   
   
2. To check the uptime of the collector, run a tail command on the ActiveDiscovery-main.root.log, and grep for uptime:
   
   [root@abcde019 nlayers]# tail /var/lo/nlayers/ActiveDiscovery-main.root.log | grep -i "uptime"
   
   2007-08-31 11:50:57,894 INFO [StatusReporter] (StatusReporter-56864) Reporting uptime: com.nlayers.seneca.ap.ApUptimeReport@1f17ce5[apProbeId=100,version=5.2.1.0229,uptime=607575330,collectorIp=10.9.252.19]

Note: The uptime data is provided in milliseconds. To convert milliseconds to minutes, divide the uptime by 600000.

Additional Information

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