User Agent Installation Guide

Supported operating systems

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista, 32 bit and 64 bit, x86 architecture
• Linux, 32 bit and 64 bit, x86 architecture and PowerPC architecture
• Mac OS X, 32 bit and 64 bit
• Solaris, 32 bit and 64 bit, Sparc and X86 architecture
• FreeBSD, 32 bit and 64 bit, x86 architecture
• AIX, 32 bit and 64 bit, PowerPC architecture
• HP-UX, 32 bit and 64 bit, IA and PARISC architecture

Memory requirement

• 16M minimum, 64M recommended

Installation Steps

1. Make sure QuickBuild server is up and running, login to QuickBuild using your account and navigate to My tab, click the the link download user agent to download user agent of desired platform. Extract downloaded file into the directory where the user agent should be installed.
2. Make sure you have Sun JDK5 or JDK6 installed. For JDK5, QuickBuild requires at least JDK5 update 11. Download the appropriate JDK version from http://java.sun.com if needed.
3. Make sure the java command exists in the system path; if not, you will need to modify the file conf/wrapper.conf under the build agent's installation directory, and point the entry wrapper.java.command to path of the java command.
4. For Windows platform, run bin/agent.bat to start the agent; for Unix platforms, run command bin/agent.sh console to start the agent. Please note:
   • Make sure the user running the command has full access rights to the agent's installation directory.
   • This command runs the user agent in console mode. Follow this guide on how to install the agent as system service so that it auto-starts when machine reboots.
   • By default, the user agent will run on port 8821. If this port is used by other process, you can change the port number to an unused port by running command config.bat (for Windows), or config.sh (for Unix).
5. If you changed your user name/password at QuickBuild server, you will need to specify the correct credentials for the user agent by running config.bat (for Windows), or config.sh (for Unix).