Install and uninstall the Cloud Monitor agent - Host monitoring| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Automatically install the Cloud Monitor agent (Recommended)

Perform the following steps to enable automatic installation of the Cloud Monitor agent on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances provided by Alibaba Cloud and hosts that are not provided by Alibaba Cloud:

Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Host Monitoring.
On the Instances tab of the Host Monitoring page, select the hosts on which you want to install or upgrade the Cloud Monitor agent.
Click Batch Install.
Wait for about 5 minutes. When the agent status changes from Installing to Running, the installation or upgrade is successful.
Turn on New purchase ECS automatically installs Cloud Monitor.
After you turn on this switch, the Cloud Monitor agent is automatically installed on new ECS instances. Otherwise, you must manually install the agent.

Manually install the Cloud Monitor agent on ECS instances

Notice If you have installed the Java or GoLang agent on the ECS instance, uninstall the Java or GoLang agent first. For more information, see How do I uninstall the Java agent or GoLang agent of Cloud Monitor?

Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Host Monitoring.
On the Instances tab of the Host Monitoring page, click Aliyun ECS install in the upper-right corner.
In the Monitor Install Guide panel, select the region and operating system of the ECS instance. Then, copy and run the commands that are displayed in the panel as prompted to install the Cloud Monitor agent.
- Windows
  1. Download the agent package of the 32-bit version or 64-bit version based on the operating system of the ECS instance.
  2. Log on to the ECS instance on which you want to install the Cloud Monitor agent as the administrator.
  3. Create a directory named cloudmonitor in the C:\Program Files\Alibaba directory.
  4. Upload the agent package to the ECS instance and decompress the agent package to the C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor directory.
  5. Open Command Prompt.
    Press Win+R. In the Run dialog box, enter cmd and click OK.
  6. Run the following commands to install the Cloud Monitor agent:
    cd C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor\bin
    
    argusagent_service.exe install
  7. Run the following command to start the Cloud Monitor agent:
    net start argusagent
  8. Query the status of the Cloud Monitor agent.
    1. Open the Services window.
      Press Win+R. In the Run dialog box, enter services.msc and click OK.
    2. View the status of the argusagent service.
      If the status of the argusagent service is Running, the Cloud Monitor agent is properly running.
- Linux
  1. In the Monitor Install Guide panel, click Click the copy installation command.
  2. Log on to the ECS instance on which you want to install the Cloud Monitor agent as the root user.
  3. Paste and run the command to install the Cloud Monitor agent.
  4. Run the following command to view the status of the Cloud Monitor agent:
    ps aux | grep argusagent | grep -v grep
    The following output indicates that the Cloud Monitor agent is properly running:
    root 2284 0.0 0.0 22516 1488 ? Ss Sep14 0:00 /usr/local/cloudmonitor/bin/argusagent -d root 2286 0.2 0.3 939652 14300 ? Sl Sep14 3:15 /usr/local/cloudmonitor/bin/argusagent

Manually install the Cloud Monitor agent on hosts that are not provided by Alibaba Cloud

Notice If you have installed the Java or GoLang agent on the host, uninstall the Java or GoLang agent first. For more information, see How do I uninstall the Java agent or GoLang agent of Cloud Monitor?

Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Host Monitoring.
On the Instances tab of the Host Monitoring page, click Not Aliyun ecs install in the upper-right corner.
In the Monitor Install Guide panel, select the region and operating system of the host. Then, copy and run the commands that are displayed in the panel as prompted to install the Cloud Monitor agent.
- Windows
  1. Download the agent package of the 32-bit version or 64-bit version based on the operating system of the host.
  2. Download the accesskey.properties configuration file.
  3. Log on to the host on which you want to install the Cloud Monitor agent as the administrator.
  4. Create a directory named cloudmonitor in the C:\Program Files\Alibaba directory.
  5. Upload the agent package to the host and decompress the agent package to the C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor directory.
  6. Upload the configuration file to the C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor\local_data\conf directory of the host.
  7. Open the command prompt window.
    Press Win+R. In the Run dialog box, enter cmd and click OK.
  8. Run the following command to install the Cloud Monitor agent:
    cd C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor\bin
    
    argusagent_service.exe install
  9. Run the following command to start the Cloud Monitor agent:
    net start argusagent
  10. Query the status of the Cloud Monitor agent.
    1. Open the Services window.
      Press Win+R. In the Run dialog box, enter services.msc and click OK.
    2. View the status of the argusagent service.
      If the status of the argusagent service is Running, the Cloud Monitor agent is properly running.
- Linux
  1. On the monitoring installation guide page, click click copy installation command.
  2. Log on to the host on which you want to install the Cloud Monitor agent as the root user.
  3. Paste and run the command to install the Cloud Monitor agent.
  4. Run the following command to view the status of the Cloud Monitor agent:
    ps aux | grep argusagent | grep -v grep
    The following output indicates that the Cloud Monitor agent is properly running:
    root 2284 0.0 0.0 22516 1488 ? Ss Sep14 0:00 /usr/local/cloudmonitor/bin/argusagent -d root 2286 0.2 0.3 939652 14300 ? Sl Sep14 3:15 /usr/local/cloudmonitor/bin/argusagent

Uninstall the Cloud Monitor agent

After you uninstall the Cloud Monitor agent from a host, you cannot monitor the host in real time in the Cloud Monitor console, but you can view the historical metric data.

Windows
1. Log on to the host where the Cloud Monitor agent resides as the administrator.
2. Open the command prompt window.
  Press Win+R. In the Run dialog box, enter cmd and click OK.
3. Run the following command to stop the Cloud Monitor agent:
  net stop argusagent
4. Run the following command to uninstall the Cloud Monitor agent:
  "C:\Program Files\Alibaba\cloudmonitor\bin\argusagent_service.exe" uninstall
5. Run the following command to delete the cloudmonitor directory:
  cd C:\Program Files\Alibaba
  
  rd /s /q cloudmonitor
Linux
1. Log on to the host where the Cloud Monitor agent resides as the root user.
2. Run the following command to stop the Cloud Monitor agent:
  bash /usr/local/cloudmonitor/cloudmonitorCtl.sh stop
3. Run the following command to uninstall the Cloud Monitor agent:
  bash /usr/local/cloudmonitor/cloudmonitorCtl.sh uninstall
4. Run the following command to delete the cloudmonitor directory:
  rm -rf /usr/local/cloudmonitor