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Ettie Wilkoff
I am trying to add a new build agent on the build server (team city 6.5.5) - I was able to add a new agent but now the first one is disconnected and second one is running, I think there is some problem with the ownport & ServerURL that I have specified - So for my first one :name:abcownPort=9090serverUrl=http\://localhost\:xxxx
I tried giving another port other than xxxx, but it was not able to connect, only when i gave xxxx when adding the second agent it worked and thus replaced the old one..any help on how to changes these properties.
Don't change the port number in serverUrl, it should remain the same for all agents. Specify different ownPort in buildAgent.properties for each agent installation to run multiple agents on the same host. Also, I don't think you need to escape ':' symbol, :xxxx is ok.
Try to clean all build agents info on server. To do that, first stop every agent with agent.sh stop or agent.bat stop if on Windows. Then, to be sure, hunt and kill possible remaining agents' java processes with your process management tool of choice. After that all agents should have state 'disconnected' on the server. Press 'Remove Agent' button for each one.
On our centos system we have configured a teamcity agent as a systemd service.The service works fine except when the agent performs an upgrade. Then it gets killed while performing the upgrade.I guess this is due to the fact, that systemd watches the created processes and when the main process exists to let a second process perform an upgrade systemd decides this is a lost process and kills it after about a minute.
I just had a similar problem with the latest version of TeamCity. In my case, I had configured systemd to run the agent as a special user. This user doesn't seem to have the required permissions to perform the upgrade.
However, at that point, the agent was running as root. So I stopped it manually, reset permissions in the build agent directory to my other user (after the upgrade, some files belonged to root) and restarted using systemctl. This restarted the agent as the proper user.
I have inherited a TeamCity server and I am reviewing the configuration. To make it a little easier, I would like to rename a build agent from a long random name to something a little more easily identifiable.
Depending on where you installed the TeamCity Agent, on Windows the file may live at C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\conf\buildAgent.properties or on Linux at /home/teamcity/buildagent/conf/buildAgent.properties.
(Microsoft changed executable name from powershell to pwsh for PowerShell.Core), TeamCity 2017.1.4 cannot detect powershell presence on the agent machineThe issue was fixed in TeamCity 2017.2, please consider upgrading to a newer TeamCity version (current one is 2018.2.2)
When I was first figuring out how to port the BEMCheckBox to Xamarin I built the framework manually. This is obviously not a good long term solution so I set about figuring out how to automate the build. The first step was to install the TeamCity build agent on the Mac. The official TeamCity documentation on how to do this can be found here.
Assuming you already have TeamCity set up and running, installing a new agent is pretty simple. If you click on Administration, you should see a link just below the search bar to Install Build Agents, like this:
Also, if you find yourself faced with an error when trying to create or delete a service using the scripts for doing so that are included in the agent folders, try closing the services.msc dialog. I found that it was preventing me from deleting some services (that I was trying to then recreate).
Starting from version 2023.05, TeamCity provides a convenient and quick way to get direct access to an agent machine by opening a remote terminal directly from the TeamCity UI. It is supported on Linux, Windows (with PowerShell), and macOS.
The ability to open the terminal on the agent directly via the UI can come in handy in many use cases, especially when you need to check the agent environment when configuring a build or when you need to debug a failed build.
Creating and editing build configurations entails a number of steps and might be time-consuming. You configure the first command, run the command, check the results, run the second command, check the results, and so on.
When commands are not running, debugging the root cause of the problem might be daunting. With the help of agent terminals, you can easily debug agents remotely by checking logs on the agent and seeing what caused the build to fail.
Agent terminals provide more transparency in security. Thanks to TeamCity, you have fine-grained control over permissions, which means you decide who has access to what. You can restrict agent terminal access to only the users who actually need it.
Getting one-click direct access to any agent machine is a powerful tool that can be used by anyone who needs it. This might be admins who are responsible for setting up build configurations and making sure they run correctly. It could also include developers, QAs, or DevOps engineers who need to look into the cause of a build failure.
TeamCity Build Agent for jetbrains.com/teamcity. It is a piece of software which listens for the commands from the TeamCity server and starts the actual build processes. Install requires at least serverUrl parameter, e.g. -params 'serverurl= ', also supported are agentName, agentDir, ownPort and possibly others. If looking to see what changes in the agent config files during the run use -v argument to choco.exe.
Shared classloading allows loading all plugins into same classloader. It is not allowed to override any libraries here. You may specify desired the classloading mode in the teamcity-plugin.xml file, see the section below.
new plugins (with the teamcity-plugin.xml descriptor), including tool plugins * tool plugins (with the teamcity-plugin.xml descriptor). This is a kind of plugin without any classes loaded into the runtime. Tool plugins for agents are used to only distribute binary files to agents, e.g. the NuGet plugin for TeamCity creates a tool plugin for agents to redistribute the downloaded NuGet.exe to TeamCity agents. See more at Installing Agent Tools.
On your TeamCity build agent server, can you bring up task manager and see if any instances of Octo.exe are running? It looks like perhaps something is locking this directory, preventing the file from being extracted. Could you try deleting the directory manually?
Hello,
I tried deleting it manually, still the same problem.
There is no Octo.exe running continuously, though when another agent is doing some packaging or deploying it runs ofcourse.
Something I might have forgotten to tell you is that for this specific project we have in teamcity, 1 octopack package step and 4 octopus release steps.
The release steps are set to be run on the same agent as the agent that does the packaging (This goes for all our projects).
And it looks like most of the time it successfully manage to do the octopus deploy step for the first one in the queue and fails the other 3.
No, they are all set to be run on the same agent so they are queued one after one. Both the packaging and all the deploy steps. Though we do have 2 more agents on that server, but as far as I understand it the agents and the Octopus for the agents are all separate, right?
While trying to get our build automation to work, I noticed that workspace status, primarily changeset number, is not correct on build agent-side. What I mean is that the PlasticSCM Workspace that resides on the build machine (where the TeamCity Build Agent runs) returns an out-of-date changeset number when executing "cm status", even though files and folders where updated correctly.
I am trying to use self-hosted agent in Azure DevOps to run Postman tests. Due some restrictions to use extra tools, I am using command prompt to install and run newman under Microsoft Windows server based private agent.
On the TeamCity website you can pick from a variety of distributions.This post uses TeamCity bundled with Tomcat servlet container and covers the evaluation setup of a TeamCity server and a default build agent running on the same machine.
TeamCity, developed by JetBrains, is a common CI/CD automation tool for developers. It offers the ability to use build agents, distribute CI/CD pipelines across machines, or schedule parts of a pipeline to a specific instance type or container.
In this post, you will learn how to add an EC2 Mac instance as a build agent to an existing TeamCity server. While this post shows how to use an EC2 Mac instance with TeamCity, it can be done with different CI/CD applications such as Jenkins or GitLab runners.
In the user data, Amazon Corretto 8 for the TeamCity agent is installed. Lastly, it resizes the boot volume to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) size and starts the ARDAgent. This allows you to connect with a VNC Client to the instance. For more information on the volume resizing, the ARDAgent, or the ec2-macos-init, see our Amazon EC2 Mac instance documentation.
Before explaining how to add this instance as a build agent, Xcode must be installed on the instance. As the installation requires logging in to the Apple App Store, follow the instructions of Connect to your instance using Apple Remote Desktop.
Log into the web console for TeamCity from your EC2 Mac instance and download the Minimal zip file distribution installer from the Agents tab. If there are agents already connected, the link for the installers is in the upper right corner on the current version of TeamCity. Move the zip file to the desired location and unzip the downloaded file.
Within the buildAgent folder there is a folder named conf. Copy the buildAgent.dist.properties file and name the copy buildAgent.properties. Open the new properties file and edit the serverURL and name variables to match your TeamCity server URL and what you want to name your build agent.
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