Although you can run multiple tasks within a single agent, you can also run multiple agents, each within its own process. A common strategy is to have an agent for production work and another agent for testing/development work. This also has the added benefit of separation of any analytic data we collect and provide to you on the Dashboard.
In order to run multiple agents effectively requires modifying three entries within each agents' wrapper.conf file (under ../conf).
The entries are:
# Name of the service wrapper.ntservice.name=agent1 # Display name of the service wrapper.ntservice.displayname=Perspectium Replicator Agent1 # Description of the service wrapper.ntservice.description=Perspectium Replicator Agent1
In the examples above we've ensured uniqueness of the agent by adding an instance number, 1, to the standard name associated with each entry.
A second Agent would have entries such as the following:
# Name of the service wrapper.ntservice.name=agent2 # Display name of the service wrapper.ntservice.displayname=Perspectium Replicator Agent2 # Description of the service wrapper.ntservice.description=Perspectium Replicator Agent2