The Agent Control Port is used for the communication between an Initiator Agent and a Helper Agent.
After an Initiator Agent connects to the Coordinator with a request for cores, it receives from the Coordinator the IP addresses of machines that host Helper Agents and currently have available cores. The Initiator Agent then connects to the ports of a machine that has a Helper Agent with available cores, to use it for its distributed task.
Each installed Agent, either an Initiator or a Helper, needs two ports for its communication. These ports must have consecutive numbers, for example, 3000 and 3001.
The default ports of the Agent Control Port are: 2088 and 2089. The default ports can be changed only after the installation, and must be the same for all Agents.
Notes:
- Before you change the default ports of the Agent Control Port, you need to verify that no builds are currently running. If there are running builds, they will be aborted.
- From version 0.96.71 and up, changing the default ports of the Agent Control Port is done solely in the Coordinator Settings. The change that is made in the Coordinator will be applied automatically to all connected Agents. For versions older than 0.96.71, after changing the default ports in the Coordinator, you need to manually enter the new port number in each connected Agent. The following instructions describe this procedure as well, starting from step 5.
> To change the default ports of the Agent Control Port:
...
