---
title: "trustedge agent"
source_url: https://dev.digicert.com/trustedge/cli-reference/trustedge-agent.html
---

| **Usage** | `trustedge agent [options]` |
| **Description** | TrustEdge agent acts as the “client” to DigiCert® Device Trust Manager and can be run interactively via the CLI or [run as a system service](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/trustedge-as-a-service.md). |

## Overview

TrustEdge agent acts as the “client” to Device Trust Manager. When run via the CLI using the `trustedge agent` command, TrustEdge agent connects to Device Trust Manager, processes any pending commands and policies, prints the output to the screen, and then exits.

## Examples

### TrustEdge agent help (--help)

To view usage details and available options for TrustEdge agent, use the `--help` option:

```
trustedge agent --help
```

### TrustEdge agent bootstrapping (--bootstrap-zip)

You can configure and initialize a device with TrustEdge agent using a Device Trust Manager bootstrap zip file:

```
sudo trustedge agent --configure --trustedge-user trustedge --trustedge-group trustedge --bootstrap-zip ./<guid.zip>
```


> **Tip**
>
> See [Tutorials: Initialize TrustEdge agent](https://dev.digicert.com/md/trustedge/tutorials/initialize-and-start-trustedge-trustedge-agent.md) to learn about setting up a device using TrustEdge agent.