PlatformStartup

Platform Startup

With volttron-lite running, you need to perform the following commands:

• Install the agent executable: volttron-ctrl install-executable <path to .egg file>
• Install agent launch file: volttron-ctrl load-agent <path to .json launch file> [<new agent name>]
• Enable automatic starting of agent: volttron-ctrl enable-agent <agent name>
• Test start the agent: volttron-ctrl start <agent name>

Then restart volttron-lite and the agent should start automatically. Autostart can be skipped using the --skip-autstart command-line option.

By convention, agents should have either a .service or .agent suffix. .service agents are considered essential to the platform and are started before other agents. Below is an example.

[volttron]$ . bin/activate
(volttron)[volttron]$ cd Agents/ListenerAgent
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ python setup.py bdist_egg
...
creating 'dist/listeneragent-0.1-py2.7.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
...
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl install-executable dist/listeneragent-0.1-py2.7.egg 
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl load listeneragent.launch.json listener.agent
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl list-executables
listeneragent-0.1-py2.7.egg
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl list-agents
AGENT           AUTOSTART  STATUS
listener.agent  disabled         
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl enable-agent listener.agent
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl list-agents
AGENT           AUTOSTART  STATUS
listener.agent   enabled         
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl start listener.agent
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl list-agents
AGENT           AUTOSTART  STATUS
listener.agent   enabled   running
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl stop listener.agent
(volttron)[ListenerAgent]$ volttron-ctrl list-agents
AGENT           AUTOSTART  STATUS
listener.agent   enabled        0

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