Startup issue on AIX Robot (numerous entries in /var/adm/messages)

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• Unified Infrastructure Management for Mainframe
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Robot version 9.32 is running okay. AIX OS 7.x. In /etc/inittab, we see->  nimbus:2:respawn:/usr/bin/startsrc -s nimbus

There are ~10K+ messages in /var/adm/messages being generated within 24 hours.

   Mar  3 14:00:00 <system> daemon:info src[19333120]: The nimbus subsystem was requested to STARTED by user root

There are no nimbus related commands in /etc/rc.tcpip.

Environment

• Release : 9.1.0
• OS: AIX 7.1
• Component : Robot

Resolution

The customer decided to replace the entry in the inittab

   "nimbus:2:respawn:/usr/bin/startsrc -s nimbus"

       with

   "nimbus:2:once:/usr/bin/startsrc -s nimbus > /dev/console 2>&1";

This starts the robot upon reboot but does not continually try to spawn the process/daemon.

This appears to be a better approach than using respawn.