I was working with VMware Update Manager and was running a scan on the entire VMguest infrastructure. Well the Update Manager service hung. I am not going to say anything more about that. :)
So I went to the UM server and attempted to restart the service. It sat in stop pending for quite awhile so I decided to kill the process. hmmm how do I do that? I was going to use powershell but the only cmdlet's available are to get- and stop- and restart-. All in the same token as going through the GUI.
This killed the Update Scan on the VIclient and allowed me to restart the service.
So I went to the UM server and attempted to restart the service. It sat in stop pending for quite awhile so I decided to kill the process. hmmm how do I do that? I was going to use powershell but the only cmdlet's available are to get- and stop- and restart-. All in the same token as going through the GUI.
Tasklist.exe /SVC
This displays all of the services running and their PID
Taskkill.exe /PID <PID #> /T
This terminates the service and child processes.This killed the Update Scan on the VIclient and allowed me to restart the service.
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