Starting And Stopping The Agent

This page provides instructions for working with the buagent command line utility.

Starting the Agent

To start the Agent, follow the instructions below.

1. Run buagentctl start command:

 
# buagentctl start
 

Return:

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl start: buagent started
 

2. Verify the Agent's status by running the buagentctl status command:

 
# buagentctl status
 

Return:

To stop the running CDP Agent, follow the instructions below.

1. Run buagentctl stop command:

 
# buagentctl stop
 

Return:

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl stop: buagent stopped
 

2. Verify the Agent's status by running the buagentctl status command:

 
# buagentctl status
 

Return:

You should now receive a message that the Agent is not running.

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl status: buagent (no pid file) not running
 

To stop and then immediately start the Agent again, follow the instructions below.

Run buagentctl restart command:

 
# buagentctl restart
 

Return:

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl restart: buagent stopped
/usr/bin/buagentctl restart: buagent started

In Red Hat, Fedora Core, and CentOS, there is a symbolic link to buagentctl in the /etc/init.d directory:

 
ls -l /etc/init.d/buagent
 

Return:

 
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Aug  4 09:22 /etc/init.d/buagent
-> /usr/bin/buagentctl

The link allows the CDP Agent to be started at System boot and stopped at System shutdown.

To see the status of the agent, run the following buagentctl command:

 
# buagentctl status
 

Return:

Agent is running:

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl status: buagent (pid 2105) running
 

Agent is not running:

 
/usr/bin/buagentctl status: buagent (no pid file) not running
 