Symantec Critical System Disabling and enabling AIX agents, Permanently disabling HP-UX agents

Installing UNIX agents

Disabling and enabling UNIX agents

/sbin/init.d/sisidsagent stop

Permanently disabling HP-UX agents

If you have performance issues with HP-UX agents, you may need to permanently disable them.

Warning: You should perform these procedures only in emergency situations.

To permanently disable HP-UX agents

1Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2Type and run the following commands:

/sbin/init.d/sisipsagent stop /sbin/init.d/sisidsagent stop

3Type and run the following commands to rename the agent scripts, which temporarily break any symbolic links in the rc#.d startup scripts:

mv /sbin/init.d/sisipsagent /sbin/init.d/sisipsagentOFF mv /sbin/init.d/sisidsagent /sbin/init.d/sisidsagentOFF

Enabling a disabled HP-UX agent

You can enable a HP-UX agent that was previously disabled.

To enable a permanently disabled HP-UX agent

1Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2Type and run the following commands, which rename the sisipsgent scripts:

mv /sbin/init.d/sisipsagentOFF /sbin/init.d/sisipsagent mv /sbin/init.d/sisidsagentOFF /sbin/init.d/sisidsagent

3Type and run the following commands to start the agents:

/sbin/init.d/sisipsagent start /sbin/init.d/sisidsagent start

Disabling and enabling AIX agents

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This section describes how to disable and enable AIX agents.