How to add two Machine Agents on Linux and Windows

[Abhi.Bajaj]

Configuring Multiple Machine Agents on Linux and Windows Platforms

Linux

Machine Agents are started as JVM so you can have "n" numbers of Machine Agents on a Linux box.

• Make sure to have individual downloads per Machine Agent.
• Input the details of the Machine Agent in controller-info.xml file
• Then start Machine Agent by either of the below two commands->

1. ./<MA-Home>/bin/machine-agent &

2. <MA-Home>/jre/bin/java -jar <MA-Home>/machineagent.jar

Here is an example test below:

Windows

Machine Agents are started as JVM so you can have "n" number of MA's on a Windows box.

• Ensure individual downloads per machine agent
• Input the details of the machine agent in controller-info.xml file and then start MA by ->
  

  <MA-Home>/jre/bin/java -jar <MA-Home>/machineagent.jar​

• Make sure the UNIQUE_HOST_ID of both Machine agents are different