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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Log File Agent User's Guide > Requirements and agent installation and configuration IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Agent-specific installation and configuration
In addition to the installation and configuration information in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide, use the information in this section to install and configure the Tivoli Log File Agent.
You configure your agent using the configuration panel or command line and by creating configuration files. The configuration files tell the agent what log files to monitor, where to find them and what formatting to use.
- Configure from the configuration panel
Use the configuration panel to configure the agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server graphical user interface.
- Configure from the command line
You can configure the Tivoli Log File Agent from the command line on UNIX systems
- Configuration Files
The configuration (.conf and .fmt) files tell the agent what log files to monitor, where to find them and what formatting to use to read them.
- Change the agent configuration and format files
The Tivoli Log File Agent reads its configuration (.conf), and format (.fmt) files when it starts, and monitors their timestamp every 60 seconds thereafter.
- Centralized Configuration
Use Centralized Configuration to update local configuration files on many monitoring agents.
- CPU throttling
Use CPU throttling to manage the processor usage of an agent.
- Remote log file monitoring
You can use Remote log file monitoring to monitor log files on remote systems.
- Remote installation and configuration
You can install the monitoring agent remotely from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal or from the command line.
- Start the agent
Use this procedure to start the Tivoli Log File Agent from the command line on UNIX.
- Forwarding events to Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus ObjectServers
You can configure the Tivoli Log File Agent to forward events to one or more Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers.
- Subnodes
Use subnodes to implement monitoring profiles that monitor multiple applications from a single agent instance.
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