Due to any issue if you are unable to run service-control command on vCenter then use vMon-cli as alternate.This command is available in windows as well as appliance based vCenter. vmon-cli usage: To check the startup type / status of any service  you can run below command: ==================== root@vcsa67 [ /usr/lib/vmware-vmon ]# vmon-cli -s netdumper … Continue reading How to change the startup setting of services in vCenter Server Appliance 6.x using command line