Symantec Critical System - Temporarily Disabling AIX Agents; Permanently Disabling AIX Agents; Enabling a Disabled AIX Agent

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