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Start or stop the appliance

To start or stop the Deep Security Virtual Appliance, you must start or stop its embedded Deep Security Agent. This can only be done locally on the host computer.

To start or stop the agent on Linux:

Using SysV init scripts:

• Start: /etc/init.d/ds_agent start
• Stop: /etc/init.d/ds_agent stop

Using systemd commands:

• Start: systemctl start ds_agent
• Stop: systemctl stop ds_agent