agents fail to start after forced shut down (windows)

[Jason D]

This issue has been discussed  here quite a while ago (6 years).  Thought I would start a new thread and see if there are any new findings/help.

Problem:

- windows VM restarts (for any number of reasons - patch install, fault, etc)

- after restart the GO agent service also tries to start up

- because the VM restart is rather quick GO sees a relatively fresh (<10m) agent-bootstrapper.running file and so does not start

With several hundred agents running on dozens of VMs, this is a rather frequent occurrence which requires then manually starting the agents.

Are there any work-arounds or other helpful information?

Thanks.

jason