Does vmware-tools restart have to be done in ESX as well as guest?

Question

When restarting the vmware-tools service on the Linux Guest is it necessary to also restart the vmware-tools service on the ESX? I ask because I have 2 other guests running on this ESX/blade.

I'm trying to resolve an obscure issue with SNMP traps not indicating guest health and have to schedule all work accordingly since I manage hundreds of Linux guests on ESX hosts.

Answer 1

no. and there is no vmware-tools service on the ESX. since you are talking about SNMP, the corresponding service should be hostd. unless your change does not solve the issue there is no need to restart hostd.

Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490) https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003490