Tag: maintenance

  • ESXi: Determining maintanance mode status from the command line

     

    If you need to know if a host is in maintenance mode via the command line, SSH into your server and run the following:

     

    vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep -i maintenance

     

    This will return the following line (in this example the host is NOT in maintenance mode):

     

     inMaintenanceMode = false,

    To see the entire host summary printout without filtering everything apart from maintenance, run:

     

    vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary

     

    …but you’ll soon see why grep is useful here!