Running Many Gateways at Once
Running Many Gateways at Once Operate multiple profiles — each with its own bot tokens, sessions, and memory — as managed services on a single machine. This pag
Operate multiple profiles — each with its own bot tokens, sessions, and memory — as managed services on a single machine. This page covers the operational concerns: starting them all together, viewing logs across profiles, preventing the host from sleeping, and recovering from common launchd/systemd quirks. …
What this page covers
- When to use this
- Quick start
- Start, stop, or restart all gateways at once
- Manage one profile
- Service files
- Viewing logs
- Identify what's actually running
- Editing configuration
- Keeping the host awake
- macOS — caffeinate
- Linux — systemd-inhibit or loginctl
- Token-conflict safety
- Updating the code
- Troubleshooting
- "Could not find service in domain for user gui: 501"
- Stale PID after a crash
- Forcing a hard reset of one service
- Health check
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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