Has anybody had success with running prefect agent locally a

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Has anybody had success with running prefect agent locally as a background process on a windows machine like you can do with supervisor on a linux system I ve found this thread <https discourse prefect io t how to run your prefect agent as a background process with supervisord 1551> but seems like supervisor win might be broken currently How else could i go about this

Anna Geller · Answer

let me tag < Ryan Peden> he will know that best he may even have already written a Discourse topic about it and I just don t remember which one is it sweat smile

Ryan Peden · Answer

I don t think I have written one yet but I could You can wrap the agent in a Windows service using pure Python but the quickest and easiest way is using <https nssm cc |NSSM>

Nic · Answer

< Ryan Peden> would absolutely love a topic on it seems like it could be helpful for other people that might be using windows for one reason or another slightly smiling face

Nic · Answer

If i run script as a service through NSSM and Let s say the agent doesn t shutdown but reach some unstable network or other similar issues Would NSSM be able to catch this and customize the action to try restarting the agent

Ryan Peden · Answer

I don t think so but I m not sure that any of the other options on Windows would either However if the agent can t connect to the server properly after a certain number of retries I believe it will shut itself down anyway at which point NSSM would restart it

Nic · Answer

Great i will try it out slightly smiling face

Anna Geller · Answer

lol that name NSSM is it even true joy

Ryan Peden · Answer

The name is true but the name is also what causes the most resistance when I recommend NSSM I sort of want to make my own open source app called PWSM Professional Windows Server Manager and capture the market of people who want an app that does what NSSM does but don t use it because of its name laughing

Christopher Boyd · Answer

I set this up as a scheduled service it s been a hot minute and probably like early 2 x but I can find the example

Christopher Boyd · Answer

start agent bat ``` ECHO OFF C Users christopherboyd AppData Local Programs Python Python39 Scripts prefect exe agent start default PAUSE Task Scheduler Task Scheduler Create new Basic Task Name it prefect agent Select When the computer starts Select Start a program Browser gt Select Batch script Finish```