after executing the command I get the following information. it seems that he was not running
root@SAPL1454 [ ~ ]# ps aux | grep -i idmd
root 1904 0.0 0.0 10592 24 ? Ss Aug08 0:00 vmware-sts-idmd -procname vmware-sts-idmd -wait 120 -server -Xmx179m -XX:CompressedClassSpaceSize=160m -Xss256k -XX:ParallelGCThreads=1 -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/vmware/sso/hs_err_idm_pid%p.log -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/vmware/sso -home /usr/java/jre-vmware -pidfile /var/run/vmware-sts-idmd.pid -errfile /var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd.err -cp /opt/vmware/lib64/commons-lang-2.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-api-2.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-1.2-api-2.0.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-core-2.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-1.2.12rsa-1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/jna.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/commons-daemon-1.0.8.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcpkix-jdk15on-147.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcprov-jdk15on-147.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-platform.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-interface.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-server.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-diagnostics.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcprov-jdk16-145.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/authentication-framework.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/afd-heartbeat-service.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/httpclient-4.5.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/authapi-8.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/cryptoj-6.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/xmlsec-1.5.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64 -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:////opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-interface.jar file:////opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-server.jar -Djava.security.policy=/opt/vmware/share/config/server.policy -Dvmware.log.dir=/var/log/vmware/sso -Dlog4j.configurationFile=file:///opt/vmware/share/config/log4j2.xml com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdmServer
root 1905 1.2 5.2 1922520 210956 ? Sl Aug08 16:26 vmware-sts-idmd -procname vmware-sts-idmd -wait 120 -server -Xmx179m -XX:CompressedClassSpaceSize=160m -Xss256k -XX:ParallelGCThreads=1 -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/vmware/sso/hs_err_idm_pid%p.log -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/vmware/sso -home /usr/java/jre-vmware -pidfile /var/run/vmware-sts-idmd.pid -errfile /var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd.err -cp /opt/vmware/lib64/commons-lang-2.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-api-2.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-1.2-api-2.0.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-core-2.2.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/log4j-1.2.12rsa-1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/jna.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/commons-daemon-1.0.8.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcpkix-jdk15on-147.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcprov-jdk15on-147.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-platform.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-interface.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-server.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-diagnostics.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/bcprov-jdk16-145.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/authentication-framework.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/afd-heartbeat-service.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/httpclient-4.5.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/authapi-8.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/cryptoj-6.1.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64/xmlsec-1.5.5.jar:/opt/vmware/lib64 -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:////opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-interface.jar file:////opt/vmware/lib64/vmware-identity-idm-server.jar -Djava.security.policy=/opt/vmware/share/config/server.policy -Dvmware.log.dir=/var/log/vmware/sso -Dlog4j.configurationFile=file:///opt/vmware/share/config/log4j2.xml com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdmServer
root 77922 0.0 0.0 13876 2272 pts/0 S+ 09:38 0:00 grep --color=auto -i idmd