How do I stop "dmi"?

[Stuart Abramson_2]

I have the following "dmi" processes running on my HP-UX 11.11 server.

# psg dmi
root 1296 1 0 Feb 5 ? 906:39 /usr/dmi/bin/dmisp
root 1305 1 0 Feb 5 ? 0:00 /var/dmi/bin/hpuxci
root 1310 1 0 Feb 5 ? 0:00 /var/dmi/bin/sdci
root 1325 1 0 Feb 5 ? 0:00 /var/dmi/bin/swci


I figured out that DMI is the "Doman Management Interface" or something like that, which I don't think I want or need. The dmisp process is tying up one of my cpus 100%.

How do I stop this? And disable it from ever restarting?

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig file. Set START_DMI=0

If you aren't using the Service Control Manager product or any type of Desktop Management Interface (DMI) tools, you don't need to run the dmisp.

[Pete Randall]

Stuart,

Change START_DMI to 0 in /etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig.


Pete

[James A. Donovan]

...oh yeah...

and /sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop to shut it down....

[Dave Hutton]

Looks like the man page talks about starting and stopping it by:
/sbin/init.d/Dmisp
If you don't want it to start you can change:
/etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig and change the START_DMI=0

I think stopping it to stop it from taking up your CPU is safe. But to stop it all together and not have it restart. I'm not sure if thats a good thing.

Dave

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

This is Desktop Management Interface.

You can use /sbin/init.d/Dmisp stop to stop this daemon. Also configure /etc/rc.config.d/Dmiconfig to permanently disable it.

-Sri