# Unable to stop percona agent

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288 "2022-02-08T02:17:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![wil1319](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@wil1319](https://forums.percona.com/u/wil1319)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288/1 "2022-02-08T02:17:38Z")

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Hi All,

I am not able to stop/start/restart pmm-admin in PMM2 client.

pmm-admin restart --all  
pmm-admin: error: expected command but got “restart”, try --help

Same error for stop/start , the commands are not recognized, how can restart the services in this version PMM2?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Ivan\_Groenewold](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ivan_groenewold/32/6299_2.png) [@Ivan\_Groenewold](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ivan_Groenewold)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288/2 "2022-02-08T11:40:30Z")

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Hi, the proper way is through systemctl:

systemctl pmm-agent stop  
systemctl pmm-agent start

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288/3 "2022-02-08T15:40:01Z")

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Typo, the command is:

```auto
systemctl stop pmm-agent
systemctl start pmm-agent

```

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**Author:** ![wil1319](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/edb3f5/32.png) [@wil1319](https://forums.percona.com/u/wil1319)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288/4 "2022-02-08T23:22:55Z")

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Perfect Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-stop-percona-agent/14288/5 "2022-03-11T22:31:30Z")

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