Normally the 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 Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent under daemon mode.
Enabling Daemon Mode:
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[]# cd /opt/uptime-agent/bin/ []# ./agent-cfg.sh daemon on When changing from modes (xinetd <-> daemon), there is a delay of 60 seconds before it starts In order for the up.timeUptime agent to start up on boot in daemon mode you will need to symbolic link the startup scripts to the init directory Example: ln -s /opt/uptime-agent/bin/upt_daemon.sh /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99uptm_daemon ln -s /opt/uptime-agent/bin/upt_daemon.sh /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K1uptm_daemon Starting the daemon..... |
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[bin]# ./agent-cfg.sh daemon off Stopping the daemon..... Stopping up.timeUptime agent daemon The safe wraparound script is not running uptimeagent agent is not running Removing symbolic links in linux startup directories [bin]# When changing from modes (xinetd <-> daemon), there is a delay of 60 seconds before it starts |