Viewing a Bamboo agent's details
A Bamboo agent is a service that can run job builds. There are the following types of Bamboo agents:
- Remote agents run on computers other than the Bamboo server, that run the remote agent tool
- Elastic agents run in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Ephemeral agents are a short-lived remote agents that start on-demand inside a Kubernetes cluster to carry out a single build or deployment before being shut down.
Each remote agent runs in its own process (that is, has its own JVM) and has a defined set of capabilities. The latter means that an agent can only run builds for jobs whose requirements match the agent's capabilities.
On this page:
Viewing an agent's details
To view an agent's details:
- In the upper-right corner of the screen, selectAdministration> Overview.
- From the sidebar, under Build resources, select Agents.
- Select the name of the desired agent. The agent's page will be displayed.
Select one of the following tabs to see the corresponding details for the agent:
Capabilities
Displays a list of all agent-specific and shared capabilities. The capabilities in each of those sections are grouped into the following subsections:
- Custom — custom capabilities
- Executable — executable capabilities
- JDK — JDK capabilities
- Perforce, Mercurial, Git — VCS capability
You'll only see a subsection if a capability of that type is defined in Bamboo. To define a new capability, see Configuring capabilities.
Executable jobs
Displays a list of jobs, arranged by plan, that the agent can build.
System properties
Displays information about the agent.
Audit logs
Displays a record of changes that have been made to the agent.
Viewing the agents that can build jobs
To view which agents can build which jobs:
- In the upper-right corner of the screen, selectAdministration> Overview.
- From the sidebar, under Build resources, select Agent matrix.
Editing an agent's name or description
To edit an agent's name or description:
- In the upper-right corner of the screen, selectAdministration> Overview.
- From the sidebar, under Build resources, select Agents.
- Next to an agent, select Edit details.
- Update the details for the agent.
- Select Save.