Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents

Normally, after valid certificates have been imported, the HP-UX HIDS agent starts automatically with /sbin/init.d/idsagent start when the agent host is booted. To start it manually, use the following procedure.

On each agent host, perform one of the following steps:
- Log in to the agent system as root and enter the following command:
  #/sbin/init.d/idsagent start
  This starts /opt/ids/bin/idsagent under user ids and activates any schedule that was retained when the agent halted.
- Log in to the agent system as root, switch to user ids, and enter the command:
  $/opt/ids/bin/idsagent -a
  This starts /opt/ids/bin/idsagent under user ids and activates any schedule that was retained when the agent halted.
- Log in to the agent system as user root, switch to user ids, and enter the command:
  $/opt/ids/bin/idsagent
  This starts /opt/ids/bin/idsagent under user ids and does not activate any schedule that was retained when the agent halted.
Once it has started, idsagent executes in the background as a daemon process on the host system, awaiting commands from the System Manager via an SSL connection.
If another agent is running, idsagent fails with the following message:
idsagent: another idsagent (PID:pid) process is running Or a stale lockfile /var/opt/ids/idsagent.pid exists Remove it and attempt to restart - exiting
If no idsagent is running, delete the existing /var/opt/ids/idsagent.pid file and restart idsagent.
If the lock file /var/opt/ids/idsagent.pid exists and there is no agent running, the new idsagent runs and resets the lock file, displaying the following message:
idsagent: possibly stale lockfile /var/opt/ids/idsagent.pid - unlinking

Starting HP-UX HIDS Agents

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