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How to start or stop the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) process? -
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Starting or stopping the Agent Manager process. How to start or stop the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)?
The Agent Manager should be installed in a directory that is local to the system. It should also run using a local account, not a network or domain account. This should also include a local user home directory. Because the Agent Manager monitors and detects problems such as network and disk failures, having the Agent Manager installed in a local directory and running it as a local user makes the Agent Manager more resistant to failures in those services and better able to detect and report those failures. Otherwise, having the Agent Manager installed on a network drive, could cause the Agent Manager to lock itself when the network drive fails, preventing this failure from being reported.
In a default installation, the Agent Manager is installed as a Windows service or a Unix daemon, this process starts immediately after the installation. You can override this default behavior by using the --no-start-on-exit option.
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To start the Agent Manager:
Navigate to the bin directory of an Agent Manager installation and run the fglam executable.
For complete information about the fglam command and the available command-line options, see the Command-Line Reference Guide.
To restart the Agent Manager:
In the Foglight browser interface, navigate to the Agent Managers dashboard, select the Agent Manager host, and click Restart.
To stop the Agent Manager:
Navigate to the bin directory of an Agent Manager installation and issue the fglam executable with the -- stop option:
fglam --stop
To run the Agent Manager as a daemon on UNIX®:
1. Follow the instructions in To install the init.d script refer to Knowledgebase article 4225988. See Configuring the Agent Manager to run as a daemon in Knowledgebase article 4225988 for more information about this script.
2. Navigate to the location in which the init.d script quest-fglam was installed. See Locating the init.d script on page 94 for more information.
3. Run the script with a required option.- To start the Agent Manager daemon, run the quest-fglam script with the start option. For example (on Linux):
/etc/init.d/quest-fglam start- To stop the Agent Manager daemon, run the quest-fglam script with the stop option. For example (on Linux):
/etc/init.d/quest-fglam stop
To run the Agent Manager as a Windows service:
1. Follow the instructions in Installing the Agent Manager as a Windows service on page 34.
2. Launch a command-line window on the Agent Manager machine and navigate to the /bin directory.
3. Start or stop the Foglight Agent Manager service from the command-line using a required option.- To start the Foglight Agent Manager service, run fglam.exe with the --start-service option:
fglam --start-service- To stop the Foglight Agent Manager service, run fglam.exe with the --stop option:
fglam --stop