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title: "Starting the Infoblox IPAM Agent"
canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/ipamdriverosneutron/53056291/Starting%20the%20Infoblox%20IPAM%20Agent"
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Depending on your distribution, you will need to create and configure init.d and/or systemd service definitions for the `infoblox-ipam-agent`. Once that is done, you should start the agent.

To start it manually, without any init.d or systemd setup, you run the following command as the same user that runs neutron-server:  
`$ /usr/local/bin/infoblox-ipam-agent --config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf --config-file/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini >/var/log/neutron/infoblox-ipam-agent.log 2>&1`