Enabling debugging for ic-serviced daemon

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

When troubleshooting issues related to or governed by ic-serviced daemon, the logging level can be modified to provide more verbose logs. 

Environment

Smarts - 10.1.x

Resolution

• Navigate to /etc/init.d on host where the ic-serviced daemon resides.
• Edit ic-serviced, search for and modify change --loglevel=notice to --loglevel=debug
• Save and close the file.
• Stop and start the service:
  • /etc/init.d/ic-serviced stop
  • /etc/init.d/ic-serviced start
• The log sm_serviced_en_US_UTF-8-log will be created in SMHOME directory (defined at the top of the ic-serviced file).
  
  

Additional Information

Be sure to return the logging level to notice as soon as the desired event is collected.