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Asked: 2014-12-17 01:39:59 +0800 CST

Scripting out the installation of Team City agents

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We have a reasonable-sized Team City installation and currently I am planning to add another 25 agents, 5 agents per machine. So far I was doing the installation manually:

  1. Log into the server
  2. Download and run agentInstaller.exe, add the agent number to the name
  3. Open a command prompt as administrator and run the script to install the service (given a service name with the agent number appended)
  4. Open the Services configuration settings, change the user that the service is running as and start the service

Is there a simple way to script as many of these steps as possible? Ideally I would like to log into the box, and run a single script with agent number to do steps 2-4.

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1 Answers

  1. How about making Chocolatey do this:

    cinst TeamCityAgent -params 'serverurl=http://servername:8081 agentName=Build1'

    It seems that you still have to open firewall ports, though. This is from Asger Hallas's comment in the link above:

    New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow TeamCity" -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 9090 -Program "c:\program files\java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -Action Allow

    The installation of Chocolatey itself is a PowerShell one-liner, too:

    iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

    I have yet to find a way for a scripted installation of the TeamCity server, though.

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