FlexDeploy HTTPS Agent

The FlexDeploy HTTPS agent is an alternative way of connecting to an endpoint. It connects over HTTPS, thus not requiring SSH to be exposed. This may be the preferred approach for Zero Trust Architectures.

Starting and stopping the agent

The scripts located inside the agent installation directory are used for starting and stopping the agent.

Start

Linux

cd $AGENT_HOME

./StartFlexDeployHttpsAgent.sh

Windows

cd %AGENT_HOME%

StartFlexDeployHttpsAgent.bat

Stop

Linux

cd $AGENT_HOME

./StopFlexDeployHttpsAgent.sh

Windows

cd %AGENT_HOME%

StopFlexDeployHttpsAgent.bat

Troubleshooting

Run the following command to confirm if the agent is running, as well as see launch arguments.

ps -ef | grep java.*https.agent

Logs

Viewing Logs

View the logs by going to AGENT_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-https-agent/logs

Agent logs will be in the same pattern as FlexDeploy logs, flexdeploy.<number>.log with 0 being the most current log.

Catalina logs as well as garbage collection logs will also be located here.

Changing log level

To change the log level adjust the AGENT_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy-https-agent/conf/logging.properties file. Change the following lines to the desired log level.

# FlexDeploy levels
.level=INFO # change this one for every other logger then the agents
flexagon.level=INFO # change this one and the next one for just agent logging directly
com.flexagon.level=INFO

Then restart the agent for it to take effect.