# Quick Start

# Download or Compile

Click here (opens new window) to download Sermant binary package. If you will to compile the project yourself, please follow the following steps.

Execute maven command to package the Sermant project's demo module (opens new window).

mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip

# Start Sermant

Prepare and start zookeeper in advance, start Sermant demo project:

# Run under Linux
java -cp sermant-template/demo-application/target/demo-application.jar \
  -javaagent:sermant-agent-x.x.x/agent/sermant-agent.jar=appName=test \
  com.huawei.example.demo.DemoApplication

# Run under Windows
java -cp sermant-template\demo-application\target\demo-application.jar ^
  -javaagent:sermant-agent-x.x.x\agent\sermant-agent.jar=appName=test ^
  com.huawei.example.demo.DemoApplication

Check whether the beginning of the demo-application log file contains the following content:

[INFO] Loading core library... 
[INFO] Building argument map... 
[INFO] Loading sermant agent... 
[INFO] Load sermant done. 

If the log is normally output as above, it means that the sermant is mounted successfully.