IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

tacmd stopAgent

Description

Use the tacmd stopAgent command to stop the given agent or agents for the given managed systems. The OS agent must be running on the local computer before issuing this command for a non-OS agent.

If you have the authority to start agents and you specify only the agent type, you do not need to log in to stop an agent on a local computer. When you run the stopagent command on a local system, use the -t|--type option and do not use the -n|--node or -m|--system options.

When you specify only an agent type, all agents of that type are stopped on the local computer.

To stop an OS agent, you can issue the command on the local computer where the agent is installed.

By using the bulk deployment option, the agents specified in the bundle group are stopped on the managed systems specified in the deployment group.

The no execute option is intended to allow the user to determine which managed systems are stopped.

Note: You cannot use this command to stop a non-default Universal Agent instance that you created manually. Use the itmcmd agent command with the -p option instead to stop a non-default Universal Agent instance.
Note: If you attempt to stop the portal server using this command, you will receive a failure message. To stop the portal server, you must use either the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Services or the associated command line, for example, itmcmd server.
Note: Remote Deployment is not supported in environments with a z/OS Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. This restriction includes this command.

CLI syntax

Stopping IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring agent, remote execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-m|--system} SYSTEM ...
                    [{-f|--force}]
  

Stopping IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent, remote execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-n|--node} MANAGED-OS
                    {-t|--type} TYPE ...
                    [{-f|--force}]
  

Stopping IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent, local execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-t|--type} TYPE ...
                    [{-f|--force}]
  

Stopping System Service Monitors agent, remote execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-h|--host} [ {smb|ssh|rexec|rsh}:// ] HOST [ :PORT ]  
                    {-u|--username} USERNAME   
                    {-w|--password} PASSWORD
                    [{-p|--property|--properties} SECTION.NAME=VALUE ...]
                    [{-f|--force}]
  

Stopping IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent, bulk remote execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-g|--deploygroup DEPLOY_GROUP_NAME}
                    {-b|--bundlegroup BUNDLE_GROUP_NAME}
                    [{-f|--force} | {-x|--noexecute} ]

Stopping System Service Monitors agent, bulk remote execution path:

tacmd stopAgent
                    {-g|--deploygroup DEPLOY_GROUP_NAME}
                    {-b|--bundlegroup BUNDLE_GROUP_NAME}
                    [{-u|--username} USERNAME ]
                    [ {-w|--password} PASSWORD]
                    [{-s|--serverlist} SERVER_LIST ]
                    [{-d|--dir|--directory} INSTALLDIR]
                    [{-f|--force} | {-x|--noexecute} ]

where:
-m|--system
Specifies a managed system on which to stop the agents.
-f|--force
Stops the specified agents without confirmation.
-t|--type
Specifies one or more agents or agent instances to stop. The value of type is scoped to the node level.
-n|--node
Specifies the node on the computer where you want the agent to be stopped. A node is identified by the managed operating system that it contains; it is the installation directory for all agents. The name of a node includes the computer where the OS agent is installed and the product code for the OS agent. For example, stone.ibm.com:LZ is the name of the node on computer stone.ibm.com, which has a Linux OS agent installed.
-h|--host
Specifies the host on which to stop the System Service Monitors agent. Optionally, a specific connection protocol and a port can be specified.
-u|--username
A valid user log in ID on the specified host.
-w|--password
The password for the specified username.
-p|--property|--properties
Specifies one or more SECTION.NAME=VALUE pairs that identify configuration properties, where SECTION specifies the configuration section containing the configuration property, NAME specifies the name of the configuration property, and VALUE specifies the property value. Specify the instance name of the system to be configured through the INSTANCE property for systems that can have multiple instances.
-s|--serverlist
Specifies one or more server names separated by spaces.
-d|--dir|--directory
Specifies the location on the specified host where the agent is installed, if the agent is not installed in the default location. This location must be specified as a directory, in absolute path format.
-g|--deploygroup
Specifies the name of the deployment group to which the agents in the bundle group will be stopped.
-b|--bundlegroup
Specifies the name of the bundle group containing the agent(s) which will be stopped on the managed system(s) in the deployment group.
-x|--noexecute
Causes the command to display which managed systems will be stopped.

CLI example

The following command stops the Universal Agent agent with the name stone:UA:
   tacmd stopAgent –m stone:UA
The following command stops all UM agents on the node Primary:STONE:NT:
   tacmd stopAgent –n Primary:STONE:NT –t UM
The following command stops all NT agents on the local system:
   tacmd stopAgent –t NT
The following command stops a System Service Monitors agent:
tacmd stopagent -h stone.tivlab.raleigh.ibm.com -u adminstrator  
-w ****** -d D:\ibm\itm 
The following is an example for bulk execution. The command stops IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents:
tacmd  stopagent -g WindowsGroup -b NTBundle

Return values

See Table 1.

Related commands

tacmd restartAgent

tacmd startAgent

Return to Table 1.



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