Manage node agents

Overview

Node agents...

1. monitor application servers on a host system
2. route admin requests to servers

Node agent servers are created automatically when a node is added to a cell performs administrative functions, such as...

• file transfer services
• configuration synchronization
• performance monitoring

Node agents are not involved in application serving functions.

System clock

Use network time protocol to ensure clocks are synchronized between systems. To avoid errors such as security tokens no longer being valid, before changing the system clock, stop...

• appservers
• node agent servers
• dmgr server
• administrative agent server
• job manager server

View information about a node agent

System Administration | Node agents | node_agent

IPv4 and IPv6 are supported. The node name format is based on the IP version. There are restrictions to using both IPv4 and IPv6 in the same cell.

Restart a node agent

System Administration | Node agents | node_agent | Restart

Node agents should generally be kept running.

Restart all appservers on node managed by the node agent

System Administration | Node Agents page | node_agent | Restart all servers on node

This also restarts the node agent. Servers that were already stopped remain stopped.

Stop the processing of a node agent

System Administration | Node Agents | node_agent | Stop

 

Related

Node agent collection
Manage profiles for non-root users
Security specific to a multi-node or process ND environment
IP version considerations for cells