The Cloud Assistant client is an agent that runs Cloud Assistant commands on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. This topic describes how to start or stop the Cloud Assistant client.
Start or stop the Cloud Assistant client on a Windows instance
To start or stop the Cloud Assistant client on a Windows instance, perform the following
steps.
Warning Aliyun Assist Service is the process of the Cloud Assistant client. If you stop Aliyun Assist Service, the Cloud Assistant client also stops. This may cause an exception on the instance,
and the instance cannot be stopped in the ECS console. Proceed with caution when you
stop Aliyun Assist Service.
Uninstall the Cloud Assistant daemon process from a Linux instance
The Cloud Assistant daemon process is used to monitor the resource consumption of
the Cloud Assistant client, report the running status of the client, and restart the
client when the client fails. Before you stop the Cloud Assistant client, you must
first uninstall the Cloud Assistant daemon process.
Note The Cloud Assistant daemon process is available only for Linux instances.
Start or stop the Cloud Assistant client on a Linux instance
Note Before you stop the Cloud Assistant client, you must first uninstall the Cloud Assistant
daemon process. For more information, see Uninstall the Cloud Assistant daemon process from a Linux instance.
To start or stop the Cloud Assistant client on a Linux instance, perform the following steps: