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Manage viam-agent

viam-agent is installed as a systemd service named viam-agent.

To start viam-agent:
```
sudo systemctl start viam-agent
```
To stop viam-agent:
```
sudo systemctl stop viam-agent
```
Alert
When you stop viam-agent, the agent will stop viam-server as well.
To restart viam-agent:
Alert
When you restart viam-agent, the agent will restart viam-server as well.
```
sudo systemctl restart viam-agent
```
To completely uninstall viam-agent and viam-server, run the following command:
```
sudo /bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://storage.googleapis.com/packages.viam.com/apps/viam-agent/uninstall.sh)"
```
This command uninstalls viam-agent, viam-server, the machine configuration file (/etc/viam.json), and the provisioning configuration file (/etc/viam-provisioning.json).

Troubleshooting

You can find assistance in the Troubleshooting section.

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