# Start-up ## Start-up based on systemd user service For **Linux** distro, XDS agent can be started as a user service by Systemd. ```bash /usr/lib/systemd/user/xds-agent.service ``` Use well-known systemd commands to control `xds-agent.service` service. ```bash # Status XDS agent: systemctl --user status xds-agent # Start XDS agent systemctl --user start xds-agent # Stop XDS agent systemctl --user stop xds-agent ``` Default settings are defined in `/etc/default/xds-agent` file but these settings you can overwritten by `$HOME/.xds/agent/agent-config.json` file, see [Configuration chapter](./2_config.html) for more details. ## Manual start-up On **Linux or MacOS**, simply execute `xds-agent` executable: ```bash /opt/AGL/bin/xds-agent ``` On **Windows**, simply execute `xds-agent` executable (root path may change depending where you installed/unzipped xds-agent tarball): ```batch C:\AGL\bin\xds-agent.exe ``` <!-- section-note --> **Note:** If need be, you can increase log level by setting option `--log <level>`, supported *level* are: panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug. Invoke `xds-agent --help` to get more details about possible options that allow for example to change logging level or select a specific configuration file. <!-- end-section-note -->