Go User Documentation

Installing Go agent on Windows

Installation

You must be logged in as a user with Admin privileges to install the Go agent on Windows.

  1. Download a version of go-agent from the downloads page.
  2. Double-click the go-agent-${version}.exe installer file and follow the prompts to install Go.
  3. During installation you will be asked to select a root path for your Go agent. In addition to being the agent installation directory, this directory will contain also contain a directory where your source code is checked out and built.
  4. You will next be prompted to choose the bundled JRE or specify the location of JRE (or JDK) installed on your system.
  5. After installing the files, the installer will prompt you for the hostname or IP address of the Go server. Leaving this blank it will default to localhost.
  6. At the end of the installation, Go agent registers itself as a windows service and starts running automatically.

Silent (Headless) Installation

You may use this method if you would like to script the installation of the go agent.

go-agent-${version}.exe /S /SERVERIP=<SERVERIP> /GO_AGENT_JAVA_HOME=<PATH_TO_JAVA_HOME> /D=<PATH_TO_AGENT_DIRECTORY>
Argument Required Description
SERVERIP No The hostname of the go server. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
GO_AGENT_JAVA_HOME No The path to a JRE (or JDK) that the agent should run with. Defaults to the jre packaged with the agent. Needs to be atleast Java 7.
PATH_TO_AGENT_DIRECTORY No The path where the agent should be installed. Defaults to C:\Program Files(x86)\Go Agent.

For example, C:\> go-agent-12.3.0-2000-setup.exe /S/SERVERIP=10.12.20.47 /D=C:\go\agent

If User Access Control feature is enabled on your Windows system, it needs to be turned off for silent installation to work

If you are using the silent installation to upgrade an agent, you should not specify the Installation-Directory option.

Overriding default startup arguments and environment

  • Create a file named config/wrapper-properties.conf where you installed the agent
  • Copy any specific properties, or add new properties from config/wrapper-agent.conf into this file. Be sure to increment the property index if you're adding any new properties.
  • For e.g. to override the loglevel to debug, override wrapper.console.loglevel -
    # config/wrapper-properties.conf
wrapper.console.loglevel=DEBUG
  • To append additional JVM args to the agent
    # config/wrapper-properties.conf
# since the last "wrapper.java.additional" index is 2, we use the next available index.
wrapper.java.additional.3=-Xmx512mb

Location of go agent files

All the files for the Go agent are under its root installation folder in Windows, the default location is C:\Program Files\Go Agent.

Registering your agent with the server

For security reasons, all newly installed Go agents need to be enabled on the Go server before work is assigned to them. This prevents an unauthorized person from getting access to your source code. To enable a newly installed Go agent, do the following:

  1. Open the Go server dashboard
  2. Follow the instructions here to find the agent you've just installed on the list and add the agent to your cloud. The Go server will now schedule work for this agent.