Install multiple agents on the same machine

In order to fully utilize your hardware, it is often useful to install multiple agents on a single machine.

Currently Go installers do not support this out of the box. The following sections describe how this can be done manually

Windows

On Windows, multiple Go agents can be run in two ways - as Windows service or as a Windows command

Running as Windows service

• Install your first agent with the installer to the default location
• Copy the installation folder ("C:\Program Files\Go Agent") to "C:\Program Files\Go Agent 2"
• Delete the file C:\Program Files\Go Agent 2\config\guid.txt
• Delete the file C:\Program Files\Go Agent 2\.agent-bootstrapper.running
• Edit wrapper-agent.conf file to customise information related to Go Agent 2 Just after the line #include ../conf/wrapper-licenses.conf, add
  • set.GO_AGENT_DIR=C:\Program Files\Go Agent 2
  • set.GO_AGENT_JAVA_HOME=%GO_AGENT_DIR%\jre
• Run the following command

  sc create GoAgent2 binPath= "\"C:\Program Files\Go Agent2\cruisewrapper.exe\" -s \"C:\Program Files\Go Agent2\config\wrapper-agent.conf\""
  

• Start "GoAgent2" service

Running as Windows command

• Follow the instructions to run Go without installation on Windows
• Do the same steps on a different folder to set up another agent

You should use a VNC application (such as TightVNC) to keep windows user logged in. If the user logs out or the computer restarts, the agents will shutdown.

Mac OSX

• Install your first agent with the installer
• Run Terminal.app
• Make an empty folder called go-agent-2
• In this folder, run

  java -jar "/Applications/Go Agent.app/agent-bootstrapper.jar" 127.0.0.1 &
  

Linux (and other UNIX)

• Install your first agent with the installer
• Make an empty folder called /var/lib/go-agent-2
• In this folder, run

  java -jar /usr/share/go-agent/agent-bootstrapper.jar 127.0.0.1 &