Few days ago, after restart one of my ESX servers I wasn’t able connect it back to vCenter server. Connection process bar hangs on 80% and after few minutes error message says:
Reconnect host Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Agent not running
I checked if vpxa demon was running – service vmware-vpxa status – service was dead, I wasn’t able to start it – service vmware-vpxa start . Messages log shows problem with starting vpxa demon cat /var/log/messages
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 1)
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 2)
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 3)
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 4)
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 1 seconds (quick failure 5)
watchdog-vpxa: Executing ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’
watchdog-vpxa: ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’ exited after 0 seconds (quick failure 6)
watchdog-vpxa: End ‘/opt/vmware/vpxa/sbin/vpxa’, failure limit reached
In a vpxa log cat /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxa.log I found error message indicated problem with certificate.
[ error ‘App’] [VpxdCertificate] Failed: unrecognized file format: /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt
Follow below KB article which explains how to fix problem with incorrect certificate.
[box type=”info”] http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004875[/box]
