When troubleshooting issues related to or governed by ic-serviced daemon, the logging level can be modified to provide more verbose logs.
Any version of VMWare Smarts Assurance on a Linux platform.
on the host where the ic-serviced daemon resides, do the following:
cd /etc/init.d/ic-serviced
edit ic-serviced, search for and modify change --loglevel=notice to --loglevel=debug
save and close the file.
/etc/init.d/ic-serviced stop
/etc/init.d/ic-serviced start
The log is called sm_serviced_en_US_UTF-8-log and will be created in your SMHOME directory (defined at the top of the ic-servicd file).
Be sure to return the logging level to notice as soon as the desired event is collected.