What is WALinuxAgent Azure?

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What is WALinuxAgent Azure?

WALinuxAgent is Microsoft Azure Linux Agent with root access (backdoor?). It is pretty powerful to manage Linux on Azure. The source code is host at github Azure/WALinuxAgent . The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages Linux provisioning and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller.

What is azure Waagent?

The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages Linux & FreeBSD provisioning, and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller. In addition to the Linux Agent providing provisioning functionality, Azure also provides the option of using cloud-init for some Linux OSes.

What is VM agent in Azure?

The Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Agent (VM Agent) is a secure, lightweight process that manages virtual machine (VM) interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller. The VM Agent has a primary role in enabling and executing Azure virtual machine extensions.

How do I upgrade WALinuxAgent?

Update the Linux Agent when no agent package exists for distribution

  1. Download the latest version. Open the release of Azure Linux Agent in GitHub in a web page, and find out the latest version number.
  2. Install the Azure Linux Agent.
  3. Restart the waagent service.
  4. Confirm the Azure Linux Agent version.

How do I check Azure VM agent status in Linux?

Check the service status of the Azure Linux Agent to make sure it’s running. The service name might be walinuxagent or waagent. If the service is running, restart it to resolve the issue. If the service is stopped, start it, wait a few minutes, and then check the status again.

How do I fix VM agent in Azure?

Go to to the VM properties page in Azure portal, and check the Agent status. If the Windows Azure Guest Agent is working correctly, the status shows Ready. If VM Agent is in Not Ready status, the extensions and Run command on the Azure portal won’t work.

How do I stop Azure agent?

Run one of the following, as root, to remove the Azure Linux Agent:

  1. For Ubuntu >=18.04. Bash Copy. apt -y remove walinuxagent.
  2. For Redhat >= 7.7. Bash Copy. yum -y remove WALinuxAgent.
  3. For SUSE. Bash Copy.
  4. For Ubuntu >=18.04. Bash Copy.
  5. For Redhat >= 7.7. Bash Copy.
  6. For SUSE. Bash Copy.

What is OMS agent Linux?

The agent for Linux enables rich and real-time analytics for operational data (Syslog, performance, alerts, inventory) from Linux servers, Docker containers and monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix and System Center.

What is Azure Fabric Controller?

The Azure Fabric Controller (FC) is the part of the Windows Azure platform that monitors and manages servers and coordinates resources for software applications. It provisions, stores, delivers, monitors and commands the virtual machines (VMs) and physical servers that make up Azure.

What is Vmagent?

vmagent is a tiny but mighty agent which helps you collect metrics from various sources and store them in VictoriaMetrics or any other Prometheus-compatible storage systems that support the remote_write protocol.

What is WaAppAgent?

WaAppAgent.exe is the process for the RdAgent service, which is part of the VM Agent for Windows Azure Virtual Machines. If you encounter this issue, you can change the Startup type for the RdAgent service to Disabled, click Apply, then click Stop to stop the service.