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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide > Test and debugging your agent IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Install and testing an agent
There are two methods for installing and testing the agents that you create with the Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder.
If Tivoli Monitoring is running on the same system as the Agent Builder, then you can install the agent into the local Tivoli Monitoring installation. If Tivoli Monitoring is not running on the same system, then you can generate a compressed file that you can transfer to another system for testing.
When you finish testing your agent in Agent Builder, there are more benefits to installing and testing your agent with the Tivoli Monitoring Infrastructure. For example, you can:
- Build workspaces, situations, actions, queries in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
- Configure and test multiple instances of an agent that run simultaneously.
- Configure and test multiple instances of subnodes that run simultaneously.
- After you install an agent, you can see performance metrics in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal tables. For support of situations or workspaces, see Import application support files.
- After you install the agent, you can use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to verify the data from the agent. See Changes in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. If after you view the data in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you want to modify the agent, see The Tivoli Monitoring Agent Editor.
- For an agent that supports UNIX, generate the installer image on a UNIX system because a UNIX system creates the files with the appropriate permissions.
- Install the agent locally
Install the agent with an IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation on the local system.
- Create the agent image
Use this procedure to create the agent package.
- Install the package
Install the agent package on other systems:
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