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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide > The Tivoli Monitoring Agent Editor IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Self-Describing Agent
Use the Self-Describing Agent page to specify whether the agent's support files are bundled with the agent.
For more information about the Agent Editor and Agent Information page, see The Tivoli Monitoring Agent Editor.
Procedure
To open the Self-Describing Agent page, click Self-Describing Agent in the Agent Content section of the Agent Information page or the Self-Describing Agent node in the Outline View.
Self-description is enabled by default for all new agents that are created with Agent Builder 6.2.3 or later.
When self-description is enabled for an agent, application support packages are included in the agent image. The inclusion enables the agent to seed the support files for the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser. For more information about self-describing agents, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
You must have Tivoli Monitoring version 6.2.3 or later installed for the self-describing agent feature to work, and self-description must be enabled in Tivoli Monitoring. By default self-description is turned off in Tivoli Monitoring.
Selecting the Enable self-description for this agent check box does not prevent your agent from working on previous versions of Tivoli Monitoring.
Figure 1. Self-Describing Agent page
Parent topic:
The Tivoli Monitoring Agent Editor