Follow these steps:

1. Manually unbind the process using the port and re-install AIX DSA. In the DSM console, de-activate the Offline Computer via Action tab and Deactivate button. End result should be ‘Unmanaged’ or deactivated.

   

2. SSH to the AIX agent and prepare manual unbind by turning off IPSEC filtering. Confirm that IPSEC is turned off by checking messages trail via,

   # tail -f /var/adm/messages

   The result output should show that Filter should be deactivated:

   

3. Stop the agent:

   # stopsrc -s ds_agent

4. Uninstall Agent-AIX:

   # installp –u ds_agent

5. Check if Agent port 4118 is still active and bound:

   # netstat -Aan | grep 4118

   There should be no results if the port is no longer bound.

6. If Agent port is still bound like the result below, identify the socket associated with the active port. In the example below, it is f1000f000f9da3b8:

   

7. Run command, rmsock <socklet value> tcpcb to identify the process ID tied to the socket. Once identified, proceed to forcefully kill the pid using, kill -9 <pid>. In example below, the pid is 28180820:

   

8. Check Agent port 4118 again. Binding should no longer exist.

   # netstat -Aan | grep 4118

   

9. Proceed to reinstall Agent-AIX package.

   

10. Check Agent port 4118 again. Binding should no longer exist.

    # netstat -Aan | grep 4118

    

11. Check the status of ds_agent. It should be active.

    # lssrc –s ds_agent

    

12. Confirm that the driver module (ds_filter) is loaded:

    # /opt/ds_agent/ds_fctrl query

13. Proceed to activate AIX agent.

    

14. Agent should now show as Online in DSM console.