Manually Deactivate/Stop/Start the Agent

Deactivating the Agent/Appliance

Deactivation of the Agent/Appliance can normally be done from the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager that is currently managing the Agent/Appliance. If the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager cannot communicate with the Agent/Appliance, you may have to perform the deactivation manually. To run the commands below, you must have administrator privileges on the local machine.

To deactivate the Agent on Windows:

  1. From a command line, change to the Agent directory (Default is C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Agent)
  2. Run the following: dsa_control -r

To deactivate the Agent on Linux:

  1. Run the following: /opt/ds_agent/dsa_control -r

Stopping or Starting the Agent

To start or stop the Agent on Windows:

To start or stop the Agent on Linux:

Stopping or Starting the Appliance

Stopping or starting the Appliance can only be done locally on the host computer.

To start or stop the Appliance on Linux: