TeamCity build agent disconnected

Question

I installed a build agent on Windows 7 and always have the agent show up as \"disconnected\". The log teamcity-agent.txt shows below information

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Answer 1

In my case the agent was started but listed as disconnected, after waiting several minutes it was still disconnect. So I went to the bin directory on the build agent like Peter suggested and ran the following two commands

./agent.sh stop
./agent.sh start

essentially just restarting the build agent. That did the trick for me.