Starting and Stopping an Agent

To start or stop an agent on Windows:

  1. Navigate to All Programs > Tidal Automation > Service Control Manager on the Windows Start menu to display the TA Service Manager.

  2. Click the name of the agent on the Services list.

  1. Click Start to start the agent.

    OR

    Click Stop to stop the agent.

Starting and Stopping an Agent on Unix

To start or stop an agent on Unix:

  1. Open a command prompt window.

  1. Enter:

    ./tagent <agent name> start

    OR 

    ./tagent <agent name> stop

    Note: You should stop all Unix agents before rebooting the Unix system. It is recommended to add the agent stop command to a Unix system shutdown script to be used when restarting a Unix system.

    Note: When issuing the tagent start command, verify that you are logged on as the user intended to run the agent.