Managing the Discovery Agent process

This page covers how to manage the Discovery Agent on Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Manage the Discovery Agent process on Linux

You can manage the behavior of the Discovery Agent at the system level using the systemd, Upstart, or System V init tools. The following tabs outline the commands for the supported tasks in each of the respective tools.

systemd

Management Commands for the Application Discovery Agent

Task	Command
Verify that an agent is running	sudo systemctl status aws-discovery-daemon.service
Start an agent	sudo systemctl start aws-discovery-daemon.service
Stop an agent	sudo systemctl stop aws-discovery-daemon.service
Restart an agent	sudo systemctl restart aws-discovery-daemon.service

Upstart

Management commands for the Application Discovery Agent

Task	Command
Verify that an agent is running	sudo initctl status aws-discovery-daemon
Start an agent	sudo initctl start aws-discovery-daemon
Stop an agent	sudo initctl stop aws-discovery-daemon
Restart an agent	sudo initctl restart aws-discovery-daemon

System V init

Management commands for the Application Discovery Agent

Task	Command
Verify that an agent is running	sudo /etc/init.d/aws-discovery-daemon status
Start an agent	sudo /etc/init.d/aws-discovery-daemon start
Stop an agent	sudo /etc/init.d/aws-discovery-daemon stop
Restart an agent	sudo /etc/init.d/aws-discovery-daemon restart

Manage the Discovery Agent process on Microsoft Windows

You can manage the behavior of the Discovery Agent at the system level through the Windows Server Manager Services console. The following table describes how.

Task	Service Name	Service Status/Action
Verify that an agent is running	AWS Discovery Agent AWS Discovery Updater	Started
Start an agent	AWS Discovery Agent AWS Discovery Updater	Choose Start
Stop an agent	AWS Discovery Agent AWS Discovery Updater	Choose Stop
Restart an agent	AWS Discovery Agent AWS Discovery Updater	Choose Restart