# Is elastic agent running?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-agent-running/317927>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Tags:** fleet\
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-agent-running/317927 "2022-11-01T23:33:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bigverm23](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigverm23/32/112550_2.png) [@bigverm23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigverm23)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-agent-running/317927/1 "2022-11-01T23:33:54Z")

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I am trying to install fleet so after creating the policy and running the presented commands, the below is what I get. it fails.

```auto
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/elastic-agent/elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64
sudo ./elastic-agent install \
  --fleet-server-es=https://10.0.0.7:9200 \
  --fleet-server-service-token=xxxxxxxx \
  --fleet-server-policy=fleet-server-policy
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 382M 100 382M 0 0 88.8M 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 95.1M
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/cloudbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/osquerybeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/apm-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/cloudbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/metricbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/fleet-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/fleet-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/metricbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/README.md
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/heartbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/heartbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/metricbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/fleet-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/filebeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/.elastic-agent.active.commit
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/apm-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/endpoint-security-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/endpoint-security-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/NOTICE.txt
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/endpoint-security-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/filebeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/elastic-agent.reference.yml
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/cloudbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/heartbeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/elastic-agent.yml
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/LICENSE.txt
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/filebeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/osquerybeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/elastic-agent
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/osquerybeat-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/data/elastic-agent-90167b/downloads/apm-server-8.4.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.asc
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/.build_hash.txt
elastic-agent-8.4.3-linux-x86_64/elastic-agent
Elastic Agent is installed but currently broken: service exists but installation path is missing
Continuing will re-install Elastic Agent over the current installation at /opt/Elastic/Agent. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]:y
Error: failed to communicate with elastic-agent daemon; is elastic-agent running?
For help, please see our troubleshooting guide at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/8.4/fleet-troubleshooting.html
Error: enroll command failed with exit code: 1

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-elastic-agent-running/317927/2 "2022-11-29T23:34:04Z")

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