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Installing UNIX agents

Disabling and enabling UNIX agents

Temporarily disabling AIX agents

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

To temporarily disable AIX agents

1Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2Type and run the following commands:

/etc/rc.sisipsagent stop /etc/rc.sisidsagent stop

Permanently disabling AIX agents

If you have performance issues with AIX agents, you may need to permanently disable them.

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

To permanently disable AIX agents

1Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2Type and run the following commands:

/etc/rc.sisipsagent stop /etc/rc.sisidsagent stop

3Comment the agent startup commands from the /etc/inittab file by adding a colon (:) at the front of the rcsisipsagent and rcsisidsagent lines.

This causes the agents to not start at the next reboot.

Enabling a disabled AIX agent

You can enable an AIX agent that was previously disabled.

To enable a permanently disabled AIX agent

1Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2Uncomment the agent startup commands from the /etc/inittab file by removing the colon (:) at the front of the rcsisipsagent and rcsisidsagent lines.

This causes the agents to start at the next reboot. The lines should look like the following:

rcsisipsagent:23456789:wait:/etc/rc.sisipsagent start >/dev/ console 2>&1

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