Team City - Agent install question

Question

What does it mean to have TeamCity build agent installed on another machine than the Build server? The way I understand is that I need "TeamCity server install" to start a "agent install" right? Right now I have TeamCity build server installed with webUI and all of that on a windows server machine. Now what do I need to do, to install an agent on another machine (another server machine?)

Answer 1

The teamcity documentation is really good. Check out the Installing Agents section.

You can have a build agent on the same machine as the server or install agents on other machines. I would use another machine for the agent if you are going to have multiple agents or a really heavy workload on an agent.

From the machine you want to install the agent on open up a web browser and point it at your team city web ui. Click the agents tab. In the upper right should be a link called "install build agents". Click it and choose your install method of choice.