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Tentacle.exe command line

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Polling proxy

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to configure the HTTP proxy used by polling Tentacles to reach the Octopus Server.

Configure the HTTP proxy used by Polling Tentacles to reach the Octopus Server

Polling proxy options

Usage: tentacle polling-proxy [<options>]

Where [<options>] is any of:

      --instance=VALUE       Name of the instance to use
      --config=VALUE         Configuration file to use
      --proxyEnable=VALUE    Whether to use a proxy
      --proxyUsername=VALUE  Username to use when authenticating with the
                               proxy
      --proxyPassword=VALUE  Password to use when authenticating with the
                               proxy
      --proxyHost=VALUE      The proxy host to use. Leave empty to use the
                               default Internet Explorer proxy
      --proxyPort=VALUE      The proxy port to use in conjunction with the
                               Host set with proxyHost

Or one of the common options:

      --help                 Show detailed help for this command

Basic examples

This example configures the polling Tentacle to use the default Internet Explorer proxy:

tentacle polling-proxy --proxyHost="" --proxyEnable="true"

This example disables the proxy server for the polling Tentacle instance MyNewInstance:

tentacle polling-proxy --proxyEnable="false" --instance="MyNewInstance"