Monitoring, Management & Location Tracking

Q:

How to install VMware tools on Airwave 8.2.6 & above version?

We have added  open-vm-tools package from 8.2.6 code. If you are planning to install 8.2.6 or newer version, it will automatically install and service will start running. We can check the status by running command from AMPCLI

AirWave Management Platform 8.2.6 on localhost.localdomain
  1  Upload File
  2  Download File
  3  Delete File
  4  Backup
  5  Restore
  6  Support
  7  Upgrade
  8  Advanced
  9  Security
 10  Custom Commands
 11  Enter Commands
  q  >> Quit
Your choice: 11

Running Enter Commands

Type 'help' for the list of commands.
$ service
            auditd: auditd (pid  1207) is running...
         awrrdtool:
             crond: crond (pid  1702) is running...
            docker: docker dead but subsys locked
             httpd: httpd______________________________________ (pid 30556 20005 20002 19999 19975 19972 19969 19959 19770 19730 19672 19627 19622 19610 19600 19591 19558 19546 19533 19529 19526 19523 19518 19509 19492 19486 19473 19467 19455 19451 19448 19431 19428 19418 19203 18940 10811 10592 9088 6711 6707 6669 4185 426 422) is running...
          iptables: not running
           network: Configured devices:
                    lo eth0 eth1
                    Currently active devices:
                    lo eth0
             nginx: nginx (pid  19232) is running...
              ntpd: ntpd is stopped
           postfix: master (pid  1599) is running...
        postgresql: postmaster (pid  1488) is running...
   rabbitmq-server: beam.smp (pid 2263) is running...
           radiusd: radiusd dead but subsys locked
             redis: redis-server (pid  2251) is running...
         redis-vrf: redis-server is stopped
         rrdcached: rrdcached (pid 13434) is running...
              sshd: openssh-daemon (pid  1419) is running...
support_connection: support_connection.pl is stopped
          vmtoolsd: vmtoolsd: (pid 14123) is running

Note: If we install it on Hyper-V, the system installs the rpm package but doesn't’start the service, if it detects it is a pure hardware installation (non-VM). In service list we will see it is not running with  ”dead, but pid file exist”  message.