Use common Agent CLI commands - Amazon Data Firehose
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Use common Agent CLI commands

The following table provides a set of common use cases and corresponding commands for working with the Amazon Kinesis agent.

Use case Command

Automatically start the agent on system start up

 
sudo chkconfig aws-kinesis-agent on

Check the status of the agent

 
sudo service aws-kinesis-agent status

Stop the agent

 
sudo service aws-kinesis-agent stop

Read the agent's log file from this location

 
/var/log/aws-kinesis-agent/aws-kinesis-agent.log

Uninstall the agent

 
sudo yum remove aws-kinesis-agent