beautypg.com

Temporarily disabling aix agents, Permanently disabling aix agents, Enabling a disabled aix agent – Symantec Critical System User Manual

Page 96

background image

96 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

1

Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2

Type 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

1

Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2

Type and run the following commands:

/etc/rc.sisipsagent stop

/etc/rc.sisidsagent stop

3

Comment 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

1

Open a Terminal window and become superuser.

2

Uncomment 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