Administering the AMF kernel driver

Review the following procedures to start or stop the AMF kernel driver.

To start the AMF kernel driver

  1. Check that the value of the AMF_START variable is set to 1 in the following file:

    /etc/sysconfig/amf

  2. Start the AMF kernel driver. Run the following command:

    For RHEL 7, SLES 12, and supported RHEL distributions:

    systemctl start amf

    For earlier versions of RHEL, SLES, and supported RHEL distributions:

    /etc/init.d/amf start

To stop the AMF kernel driver

  1. Check that the value of the AMF_STOP variable is set to 1 in the following file:

    /etc/sysconfig/amf

  2. Stop the AMF kernel driver. Run the following command:

    For RHEL 7, SLES 12, and supported RHEL distributions:

    systemctl stop amf

    For earlier versions of RHEL, SLES, and supported RHEL distributions:

    /etc/init.d/amf stop