What is mad?

[Scott Dunkley]

Hi

I have a process that keeps appearing in my top process list its running mad -u root -g bin

what is it? Do i need it running? how can i stop it and then set it to never start agin at reboot?

tried using the man pages but its not listed

[harry d brown jr]

Could it be: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Emulators/mad-0.13.0b/

I doubt it. If you have "lsof" installed, run it (otherwise download and install it: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.74/)

then

lsof -p PIDNUMBERofMAD

and post the output here

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[harry d brown jr]

Look at this thread: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=811068

and this: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=872150

mad=mutually assured destruction

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harry d brown jr

[Simon Hargrave]

/opt/hpservices/bin/mad

It's a part of ISEE, so if you disable it you won't have HP monitoring your systems.

You could bounce it with

/sbin/init.d/hpservices stop
/sbin/init.d/hpservices start

see if it calms down?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

add on,

could you also post a

# swlist -l product | grep -i mad

Robert-Jan

[Robert Bennett_3]

The "mad" daemon is the daemon started with ISEE. If you want to turn ISEE off and therby stop the mad daemon.

/sbin/init.d/hpservices stop

If you want it to not come up again on startup

vi /etc/rc.config.d/hpservices.conf
START_TUNER=0

But, the first question is - do you want to turn ISEE off?

[Jeff Schussele]

I agree with Harry...

MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction

otherwise known as WindowsXP SP2

My $0.02,
Jeff

[Binu_2]

Hi
The mad daemon is the daemon started with ISEE.
Check these links
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=638106
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=696413

Thanks
Binu

[Scott Dunkley]

I wasnt aware I had installed ISEE whatever that is. Anyway I have now stopped it and set it not to start again. Not really worried about HP monitoring this system.

[Devesh Pant_1]

ISEE is supposedly a great tool and holds a lot of promise for the future of monitoring and reporting. However the mad daemon really makes you go mad sometimes. I would say try experimenting with some test servers and have ISEE configured. We have a central ISEE server that gets feeds from most of our servers and infact this central ISEE server even logs calls with HP on its own for hardware failures ( if and when it works fine)

Devesh