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Normally the up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent is setup by default to run under xinetd mode. Which relies on the xinetd super service to be installed at the OS level. Though recent versions of Redhat no longer have this service installed by default. As such the alternative is to run the uptime agent under daemon mode.

Enabling Daemon Mode:

The easiest way to enable the up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent's daemon mode is via the 'agent-cfg.sh' script normally located at /opt/uptime-agent/bin/

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As mentioned in the above output from the agent-cfg.sh script, you will also need to create two symlinks within the /etc/rc.d/ directory in order for the uptime-agent to start automatically on boot.

Disabling Daemon Mode:

Disabling the up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent's daemon mode is done via the same agent-cfg.sh script, which sets the agent to run under xinetd mode again, and removes the above mentioned symlinks:

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