## Disabling the cron using the CLI

If a device is being tested, or if faults are being injected into a device intentionally, you can temporarily stop notifications for a specified device. When you disable a specific agent, you stop that agent but other devices continue to be monitored.

1. Execute `ras_install.`

See "Running the ras_install script" for more information.

2. Select `P` to postpone the execution of `rasagent` from the `cron`.

This removes the `cron` entry that starts the agent every five minutes.

Note -

This step does not immediately stop any existing agent execution of the. To ensure all activity has ended, use the ps command. For example:

# ps -ef | grep ras