Title: Alarm for ESX Agent Manager (EAM) service down on compute manager Event ID: ESX Agent Manager (EAM) service on compute manager UUID is down Added in release: 3.0.0 Alarm Description
Purpose: At every 3 minutes, NSX checks for EAM status for all host-based service deployments on vCenter. If NSX doesn't get response from EAM Server it raises alarm.
Impact: If ESX Agent Manager (EAM) service not running and user has configured HostBased deployments at NSX side then EAM Agent/Service VM won't be installed if any new ESX Host added into cluster.
Environment
VMware NSX-T Data Center
Resolution
Maintenance window required for remediation? -- No Resolution: Start the ESX Agent Manager (EAM) service on vCenter. SSH into vCenter and invoke the command service-control --start vmware-eam.