Azure-devops-docs: How to you restart a build agent?

[RubixRevenge]

"After you install new software on a agent, you must restart the agent for the new capability to show up." So how do you restart an agent?

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[andyjlewis]

If you're running the agent as a service, then run services.msc, and look for "VSTS Agent (name of your agent)". Right-click the entry and then choose restart. If you're running the agent interactively, then go to the PowerShell console in which it's running and press Ctrl+C to stop it and then run run.cmd to start it again.

[RubixRevenge]

Good to know. Thanks. It might be helpful if "restart" either linked to
that explanation or summarized it as you have in the email.

Henry Wyckoff
henry.[email protected]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:59 AM, andyjlewis [e-mail]
wrote:

If you're running the agent as a service, then run services.msc, and look
for "VSTS Agent (name of your agent)". Right-click the entry and then
choose restart. If you're running the agent interactively, then go to the
PowerShell console in which it's running and press Ctrl+C to stop it and
then run run.cmd to start it again.

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[ahaleiii]

How do you restart an agent that is running as a service on Linux?

[andyjlewis]

Run the stop command and then the start command.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-linux?view=vsts#commands

[andyjlewis]

I've added @vtbassmatt to confirm.

[ahaleiii]

Ah, I looked through that page, but I was searching for keyword "restart". It appears there is script to update the environment variables: ./env.sh.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-linux?view=vsts#service-update-environment-variables

Thanks!

[cveld]

@andyjlewis is there a way to restart an environment agent through a pipeline?

Currently I do the following:

cd ../../..
pwd
./env.sh
# Unfortunately the following will signal a hard stop to the running pipeline: 
./svc.sh stop
# So this command will never get fired:
./svc.sh start

Unfortunately the start command never gets executed.