How to preconfigure remote bamboo agent exectuables with bamboo-capabilities.properties?

[Jay Barra]

I'm trying to preconfgure remote agents on a machine template so I can clone it out easily when the agents register with Bamboo. I have my bamboo-capabilities.properties file in the bin directory of the remote agent where the agent code runs from and when it does register with Bamboo I see listed the properties I told it about but Bamboo is claiming that the agent can't run any jobs that it should.

So I have several lines similar to this

system.builder.Command.NSIS=C:\\Program Files\\NSIS\\makensis.exe
system.builder.Command.doxygen=C:\\Program Files\\doxygen\\doxygen.exe

And I see when registered that the agent came up with those properties in it automatically when registering. But Bamboo thinks that the agent does not meet the requirements of any plans.

Is there a separate tag for registering exectuables?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Configuring+remote+agent+capabilities+using+bamboo-capabilities.properties

edit:

In the capabilties page there are now duplicates for the capabilities I configured to be detected automatically.

[Daniel Reiter]

I had the same problem.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Configuring+remote+agent+capabilities+using+bamboo-capabilities.properties

The comment from Ramonski (6. August) fixed the problem in my case. Try to make a space before and after the equal sign.

[Przemek Bruski]

What do the Job requirements say? It should highlight the unmatched requirements.

Also which version of Bamboo is it? If it has tasks, you're probably better off defining inline script tasks that would just execute these commands (you can use the capability in the script body, it will be substituted).

[Jay Barra]

Bamboo 4.0. The tasks are exectuable tasks that I am trying to launch.

I have other agents that can run it, but I have them disabled while I was trying to get this template machine working. It shows the disabled agents as capable or running the plans.

[Przemek Bruski]

Does it work if you restart the agent after it performs the initial registration?

[Jay Barra]

No, restarting the agent did not fix it. For now I'll just have to manually add all of the capabilties and not use that file.