Starting and Stopping an Agent

The agent installer installs the agent service, serenaRA Agent (SRA-Agent), but does not start the service. It is set to manual start by default.

Start the agent service on your agent machine according to the following procedure.

Once the agent has started, navigate to the Release Automation web application and display the Resources page. If the installation went well, the agent should be listed with a status of Connected.

Note: If you are using an agent relay, you must start it before starting any agents that will communicate through it.

To stop or start an agent service:

In Windows, use Administrative Tools > Services to start or stop serenaRA Agent (SRA-Agent).
On UNIX/Linux, to start or stop the agent, execute the associated command script as follows:

Navigate to the agent_installation/bin directory. For example: ../serena/release automation agent/core/bin
Run sraagent {start|stop} to start or stop the agent.