stopsvc command

Purpose

Stops the agent or service that is specified by the given name.

Syntax

Description

The stopsvc command stops the specified agent or service. Use the lssvc command to obtain a list of valid agent and service names. The agent determines the operations that occur during the stop command. If you attempt to stop an agent or service that is already stopped, you will receive a message indicating that the agent or service has already been stopped.

Note: For the IBM® TotalStorage® Productivity Center (TPC) agent, the lssvc command only displays the valid agent used by the cfgsvc command during configuration.

Agent or service names

The following agents can be managed by the Virtual I/O Server .

DIRECTOR_agent	Stops the IBM Systems Director agent.
ITM_premium ITM_cec	Stops the specified IBM Tivoli® Monitoring agent. The ITM_premium and ITM_cec agents are IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents. These agents provide system information including I/O virtualization mappings and system utilization.
TSM_base	Stops the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager agent.
ITUAM_base	Stops the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agent.
TPC	Stops the TotalStorage Productivity Center agent. The TPC_fabric and TPC_data agents are valid IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center agents for the stopsvc command.
perfmgr	Stops the performance management data collector agent.
ipsec_tunnel	Deactivates and deletes the secure tunnels.

Exit Status

See Exit status for Virtual I/O Server commands.

Examples

To stop the TPC_data agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc TPC_data 
```
To stop the TPC_fabric agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc TPC_fabric 
```
To stop the DIRECTOR_agent agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc DIRECTOR_agent 
```
To stop the ITM_premium agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc ITM_premium   
```
To stop the ITUAM_base agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc ITUAMM_base   
```
To stop the perfmgr agent, type the following command:
```
stopsvc perfmgr   
```
To stop and delete secure tunnels, type the following command:
```
stopsvc ipsec_tunnel   
```

Related Information

The lssvc command, the cfgsvc command, and the startsvc command.

For more information about the various agents, see the following information: