An agent installed as User Mode allows a user to interact with
applications launched by a project.
User mode is an option offered for Windows agents only. The option is set
during installation. It cannot be configured after installation. User mode
has the following applications:
- Collect input manually through a GUI application as the job runs.
This makes the job dependent on human input.
- Troubleshoot projects and steps. Output that is hidden during service
mode operation is visible in user mode. Each step produces a console window
while the step is running.
Keep in mind the following differences when setting up projects to use
a machine in user mode:
- The user mode agent operates as the currently-logged-in user on the system.
The agent is only active during the time that this user is logged into the
machine. A server running a user-mode agent can't be used if the user
is logged out.
- Steps run on a machine in user mode are visible to any users of the machine.
- Do not use the _USE_BFCREDS variable. Any steps that use this variable
will fail.