Starting and stopping a synthetic TEA Agent as a process

After you install the BMC Synthetic Transaction Execution Adapter (TEA) Agent, it automatically starts as a service on the agent computer, but you can also run the agent as process. You can run the TEA Agent as a process to support applications and technologies that require processes, such as for browser-driven scripts.

Before you begin

Before you run the TEA Agent as a process, ensure that the service is not running. You can stop the service in the APM Console, or through the operating system tools.

Log on to the TEA Agent computer as a user with administrator privileges.

To start the synthetic TEA Agent as a process

On the TEA Agent computer, navigate to the installationDirectory\TEAAgent directory, for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\BMC Software\BMCTEAAgent\TEAAgent directory.
Right-click the start_agent.bat file, and select Run as administrator.

A command prompt opens and displays the status of the TEA Agent.

To stop the synthetic TEA Agent process

You can stop the TEA Agent process from the computer with the TEA Agent, or you can stop the process from the APM Console, as described in the following procedure.

To stop a TEA Agent from the Console

In the Console, click the Synthetic tab, then click TEA Agents.
(Optional) From the Status column, select Active.
From the shortcut menu of the active agent that you want to stop, select Stop TEA Agent.
Click OK to confirm that you want to stop the agent.