Watchdog is a vRealize Operations service that maintains the necessary daemons/services and attempts to restart them as necessary should there be a failure. The vcops-watchdog is a Python script that runs every five minutes by means of the cops-watchdog-daemon with the purpose of monitoring the various vRealize Operations services, including the Cluster and Slice Administrator (CaSA).

The Watchdog service performs the following checks:

• PID file of the service
• Service status