In VxVM 5.0, how to prevent VEA (Veritas Enterprise Administrator) processes from starting up on system boot?

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It's a 2 step process to disable the startup of VEA  services on system boot.

1. Disable vxsvc startup on system boot:

  • Stop the vxsvc : /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxsvcctrl stop  

  • Run : /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxregctl /etc/vx/isis/Registry setvalue Software/VERITAS/VxSvc/CurrentVersion Mode REG_SZ '' (empty single quotes without space)
     

To re-enable startup on system boot, run the following command:

  • /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxregctl /etc/vx/isis/Registry setvalue Software/VERITAS/VxSvc/CurrentVersion Mode REG_INT 1  
  • Start vxsvc: /opt/VRTSob/bin/vxsvcctrl start

2. Disable the autostart of the vxpal agents:

#mv /sbin/rc2.d/S750vxpal.StorageAgent /sbin/rc2.d/Bak.S750vxpal.StorageAgent
# mv /sbin/rc2.d/S750vxpal.gridnode /sbin/rc2.d/Bak.S750vxpal.gridnode 
# mv /sbin/rc2.d/S760vxpal.actionagent /sbin/rc2.d/Bak.S760vxpal.actionagent 
# mv /sbin/rc2.d/S500vxvail /sbin/rc2.d/Bak.S500vxvail


Issue/Introduction

In VxVM 3.5 and 4.1, the VEA  service can be disabled from starting up on system boot, by setting VXSVC  variable to 0 in file: /etc/rc.config.d/veaservice. This option is not available in VxVM version 5.0.
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