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To view the health of the update component in the vCenter Server Appliance, run the
softwarepackages.health.get command.
I If you do not perform regular checks for available patches, the health status of the
update component might become out-of-date. For information about checking for
vCenter Server Appliance patches and enabling automatic checks for vCenter Server Appliance
patches, see vSphere Upgrade.
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To view the overall health of the vCenter Server Appliance system, run the system.health.get
command.
3 To view statistics about a particular hardware component, run the respective command.
For example, to view storage statistics for each logical disk, run the storage.stats.list command.
Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Use of Services
You can use the vimtop utility plug-in to monitor vSphere services that run in the vCenter Server Appliance.
vimtop is a tool similar to esxtop, which runs in the environment of the vCenter Server Appliance. By using
the text-based interface of vimtop in the appliance shell, you can view overall information about the
vCenter Server Appliance, and a list of vSphere services and their resource use.
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Monitor Services By Using vimtop in Interactive Mode on page 53
You can use the vimtop plug-in to monitor services in real time.
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Interactive Mode Command-Line Options on page 53
You can use various command-line options when you run the vimtop command to enter the plug-in
interactive mode.
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Interactive Mode Single-Key Commands for vimtop on page 54
When running in interactive mode, vimtop recognizes several single-key commands.
Monitor Services By Using vimtop in Interactive Mode
You can use the vimtop plug-in to monitor services in real time.
The default view of the vimtop interactive mode consists of the overview tables and the main table. You can
use single-key commands in interactive mode to switch the view from processes to disks or network.
Procedure
1 From an SSH client application, log in to the vCenter Server Appliance shell.
2 Run the vimtop command to access the plug-in in interactive mode.
Interactive Mode Command-Line Options
You can use various command-line options when you run the vimtop command to enter the plug-in
interactive mode.
Table 4‑4. Interactive Mode Command-Line Options
Option Description
-h Prints help for the vimtop command-line options.
-v Prints the vimtop version number.
-c lename Loads a user-dened vimtop conguration le. If the -c option is not used, the default
conguration le is /root/vimtop/vimtop.xml.
You can create your own conguration le, specifying a dierent lename and path by using
the W single-key interactive command.
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