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-->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. VM Extensions enable post-deployment configuration of VM, such as installing and configuring software. VM extensions also enable recovery features such as resetting the administrative password of a VM. Without the Azure VM Agent, VM extensions cannot be run.
This article details installation, detection, and removal of the Azure Virtual Machine Agent.
Install the VM Agent
Azure Marketplace image
The Azure VM Agent is installed by default on any Windows VM deployed from an Azure Marketplace image. When you deploy an Azure Marketplace image from the portal, PowerShell, Command Line Interface, or an Azure Resource Manager template, the Azure VM Agent is also installed.
The Windows Guest Agent Package is broken into two parts:
- Provisioning Agent (PA)
- Windows Guest Agent (WinGA)
To boot a VM you must have the PA installed on the VM, however the WinGA does not need to be installed. At VM deploy time, you can select not to install the WinGA. The following example shows how to select the provisionVmAgent option with an Azure Resource Manager template:
If you do not have the Agents installed, you cannot use some Azure services, such as Azure Backup or Azure Security. These services require an extension to be installed. If you have deployed a VM without the WinGA, you can install the latest version of the agent later.
Manual installation
The Windows VM agent can be manually installed with a Windows installer package. Manual installation may be necessary when you create a custom VM image that is deployed to Azure. To manually install the Windows VM Agent, download the VM Agent installer. The VM Agent is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 and later.
Prerequisites
The Windows VM Agent needs at least Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bits) to run, with the .Net Framework 4.0. See Minimum version support for virtual machine agents in Azure
Detect the VM Agent
PowerShell
The Azure Resource Manager PowerShell module can be used to retrieve information about Azure VMs. To see information about a VM, such as the provisioning state for the Azure VM Agent, use Get-AzVM:
The following condensed example output shows the ProvisionVMAgent property nested inside OSProfile. This property can be used to determine if the VM agent has been deployed to the VM:
The following script can be used to return a concise list of VM names and the state of the VM Agent:
Manual Detection
When logged in to a Windows VM, Task Manager can be used to examine running processes. To check for the Azure VM Agent, open Task Manager, click the Details tab, and look for a process name WindowsAzureGuestAgent.exe. The presence of this process indicates that the VM agent is installed.
Upgrade the VM Agent
The Azure VM Agent for Windows is automatically upgraded. As new VMs are deployed to Azure, they receive the latest VM agent at VM provision time. Custom VM images should be manually updated to include the new VM agent at image creation time.
Windows Guest Agent Automatic Logs Collection
Windows Guest Agent has a feature to automatically collect some logs. This feature is controller by the CollectGuestLogs.exe process.It exists for both PaaS Cloud Services and IaaS Virtual Machines and its goal is to quickly & automatically collect some diagnostics logs from a VM - so they can be used for offline analysis.The collected logs are Event Logs, OS Logs, Azure Logs and some registry keys. It produces a ZIP file that is transferred to the VM’s Host. This ZIP file can then be looked at by Engineering Teams and Support professionals to investigate issues on request of the customer owning the VM.
Next steps
For more information about VM extensions, see Azure virtual machine extensions and features overview.
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