Agent automatically restarts after being stopped

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

An agent will automatically restart itself after being stopped. If the Agent is stopped from service manager or from the command line (using the kill command) then the Agent will restart after a few seconds. 

Environment

Release: AUTWAB99000-11.2-Automic Workload Automation-Base Edition
Component:

Cause

There is a custom failover process that is either:

- Running in the background on the OS level.
OR
- There is an object in the Automation Engine using the MODIFY_SYSTEM function.

Resolution

Turn off the fail over process.