Restart Management agents, or Web Management Service on an ESXi 5.x Host

By Joe Piggee Sr.

You may run into a scenario when you can’t connect to a host via vCenter, vSphere client etc.

Quick and easy:

To restart the management agents on ESXi:
 
DCUI:
1. Connect to the console of your ESXi host.
2. Press F2 to customize the system.
3. Log in as root.
4 . Use the Up/Down arrows to navigate to Restart Management Agents.

5. Press Enter.
6. Press F11 to restart the services.
7. When the service has been restarted, press Enter.
8. Press Esc to log out of the system.

From Local Console or SSH:
1. Log in to SSH or Local console as root.
2. Run this command:

./sbin/services.sh restart