Starting and Stopping the Performance Collector

The Performance Collector is managed different in the Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 environment.

• Managing the Performance Collector on Solaris 9

• Managing the Performance Collector on Solaris 10

Managing the Performance Collector on Solaris 9

The perfcol daemon runs under the control of the init process. Therefore, it is completely managed by the init process.

Starting the Performance Collector

Automatically started at system start by the init process. If the service is new to init, for example, no reboot has taken place since the perfcol installation, execute the init Q command as superuser. The init Q command triggers init to re-examine /etc/inittab.

Restarting the Performance Collector

Use the /opt/SUNWn1aa/perfcol/sbin/perfcol -k command to kill the perfcol process. The Performance Collector is automatically restarted by the init process.

Stopping the Performance Collector Permanently

1. Remove the perfcol entry from the /etc/inittab file.

2. Kill the perfcol process.

   # /opt/SUNWn1aa/perfcol/sbin/perfcol -k

Managing the Performance Collector on Solaris 10

The perfcol daemon runs under the control of the smf. Use svcadm to manage perfcol.

For more information, see the svcadm(1M) man page.