How to restart the services for the N-able N-central Mac Agent

Last Modified

Wed Nov 16 14:45 GMT 2022

Description

  • This article provides a means of restarting the macOS N-able N-central agent as can be done in Microsoft Windows via services.msc.

Environment

  • N-able N-central
  • macOS Agent

Solution

  1. Open a terminal on the Mac device
  2. Login as root with the following command:
    • sudo su -
  3. Input your macOS credentials
  4. Stop the Mac Agent by typing the following:
    • launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.n-central.agent.plist
  5. Start the Mac Agent by typing the following:
    • launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.n-central.agent.plist