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Status Not under consideration
Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on May 6, 2025

Possibility to choice the agent service name on windows

In the previous version of Urbancode Deploy (version 7.2.3), it was possible to choose the agent service name on Windows. Many customers have procedures to start/stop agent services in the automation service (internal name for automation).

After upgrading to version 7.2.3, the agent service name is generated with the defined name (ibm-ucd-agent-<hash of the agent home directory>). In this case, the customer must regenerate the specific ID of all automation services for each agent installed in a specific directory.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jun 10, 2025

    We are moving this idea to 'Not under consideration' based on the comments above from both the development team and Alberto. If you still need to discuss this idea, please let Alberto know or re-open this idea. Thank you very much!

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jun 10, 2025

    I followed up with Alberto and he told me this: "I talked with Itau about this. They are analyse to change automation process."

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jun 10, 2025

    I met with the development team and here is their response:

    "We not let you control the service name any more because we need a reliable way to locate the service entry to support start/stop of compact agents. Most software does not let you control the name of their services, so this is normal practice in the industry."

  • Guest
    May 20, 2025

    Hi,

    Any news about this case? 

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    May 13, 2025

    We are creating a discussion topic and will review this with the development team. Would you want to specify the Agent Service Name in a property file? Can you help us understand in more detail why you want to do this. We may have additional questions for you later today after the development team review this. Thank you.

  • Guest
    May 12, 2025

    Hi,

    I would like to know if you have evaluated this improvement and if there is a deadline?

    Since we have to update around 4000 agents, we would like to have a definition so we can decide whether to continue customizing the process here or wait for the fix/improvement.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    May 8, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We will review this and get back to you quickly.