My experience is that QAs don't honor the "disabled" setting automatically. One needs add code for it.  In my Please login or register to see this link. I have code like below at startup Please login or register to see this code. It checks the enabled field of the QA and don't run the onInit() code if it is disabled. One could do an os.exit() too but then the QA would try to restart every minute... Because every time the disabled start is set in the UI the QA restarts, so this check works.