Services
With
, all VMware products within the same environment can
share the authentication domain and other services. Services include
certificate management, authentication, and licensing.
includes the following core infrastructure services.
Service
| Description
|
|---|---|
applmgmt (VMware Appliance
Management Service)
| Handles appliance configuration and provides
public API endpoints for appliance lifecycle management. Included on the
appliance.
|
vmware-cis-license
(VMware License Service)
| Each
includes VMware License Service, which delivers
centralized license management and reporting functionality to VMware products
in your environment.
The license service
inventory replicates across all
in the domain at 30-second intervals.
|
vmware-cm (VMware Component
Manager)
| Component manager provides service
registration and lookup functionalities.
|
vmware-sts-idmd
(VMware Identity
Management Service)
vmware-stsd (VMware Security Token
Service)
| Services behind the
feature, which provide secure authentication services to
VMware software components and users.
By using
, the VMware components communicate using a secure SAML
token exchange mechanism.
constructs an internal security domain (vsphere.local by
default) where the VMware software components are registered during
installation or upgrade.
|
vmware-rhttpproxy (VMware HTTP Reverse
Proxy)
| The reverse proxy runs on each
node and each
system. It is a single entry point into the node and enables services that run
on the node to communicate securely.
|
vmware-sca (VMware Service Control
Agent)
| Manages service configurations. You can use
the
service-control CLI to
manage individual service configurations.
|
vmware-statsmonitor
(VMware Appliance
Monitoring Service)
| Monitor the
guest operating system resource consumption.
|
vmware-vapi-endpoint
(VMware vAPI Endpoint)
| The vSphere Automation API endpoint provides a
single point of access to vAPI services. You can change the properties of the
vAPI Endpoint service from the vSphere Web Client. See the
vSphere Automation
SDKs Programming Guide for details on vAPI endpoints.
|
vmafdd
VMware Authentication
Framework
| Service that provides a client-side framework
for vmdir authentication and serves the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store
(VECS).
|
vmcad VMware Certificate
Service
| Provisions each VMware software component that
has the vmafd client libraries and each
host with
a signed certificate that has VMCA as the root certificate authority. You can
change the default certificates by using the Certificate Manager utility.
VMware Certificate
Service uses the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS) to serve as a local
repository for certificates on every
instance. Although you can decide not to use VMCA and
instead can use custom certificates, you must add the certificates to VECS.
|
vmdird VMware Directory Service
| Provides a multitenant, multimastered LDAP
directory service that stores authentication, certificate, lookup, and license
information. Do not update data in
vmdird by using an LDAP
browser.
If your domain contains
more than one
instance, an update of vmdir content in one vmdir
instance is propagated to all other instances of vmdir.
|
vmdnsd VMware Domain Name
Service
| Not used in vSphere 6.x.
|
vmonapi VMware Lifecycle Manager
API
vmware-vmon VMware Service Lifecycle
Manager
| Start and stop
services and monitor service API health. The
vmware-vmon service is
a centralized platform-independent service that manages the lifecycle of
and
.
Exposes APIs and CLIs to third-party applications.
|
lwsmd Likewise Service Manager
| Likewise facilitates joining the host to an
Active Directory domain and subsequent user authentication.
|
pschealth VMware
Health Monitor
| Monitors the health and status of all core
infrastructure services.
|
vmware-analytics VMware Analytics Service
| Consists of components that gather and upload
telemetry data from various vSphere components to the VMware Analytics Cloud,
and manage the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
|