Client Management Suite

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to manually stop the Altiris Client service in Windows OS. If yes, how do we do that.

thanks in advance for your reply.

RSM

Are you using NS or DS? Are you trying to stop the Altiris Agent (NS) and\or Altiris Aclient or Dagent (DS)?

You can use a run script in DS to a "net stop - service name", you could run a software delivery job that contains essentially the same commands, you could also use the Task Server tasks that have some of these functions built in.

Really the sky is the limit, but it depends on what you have installed, and what rights you are running them under.

NET STOP AeXNSClient
SC STOP AeXNSClient
Write a short VBScript that executes a oWMI.StopService() command
Start/Run --> Services.msc, select Altiris Agent and choose Stop

Lots of ways to skin the cat as Jim said!  Note that these all refer to the NS core Agent; similar commands can be used to shut down the Aclient/DAgent for DS.

If it's really the Altiris Client Service then it's the AClient that you're talking about. It would then be 'net stop aclient'

If you want to stop the Aclient using a DS job you need to Run Script:

call net stop aclient