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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Configure an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal client offers a convenient feature for configuring individual managed systems. This method of configuring agents does not apply to the OS agents because they are already configured and running.
To use this feature, your user ID must have Manage permission for Agent Management.
To configure your monitoring agents, complete the following steps.
Procedure
- Right-click the Navigator item for the agent to configure or upgrade.
- Click Configure to open the Configure Managed System window.
- Edit the fields to configure the agent, clicking Next and Back to move among the pages. Any pages besides Agent are specific to the agent type.
- Performance Analyzer, Summarization and Pruning Agent, and Warehouse Proxy: See "Tivoli Data Warehouse solutions" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.
- Non-base agents: See your product's installation guide in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Information Center or on IBM Tivoli Documentation Central.
- On the Agent page, establish the user ID that will be used to maintain the agent:
- Windows:
- Accept the default Use local system account to use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal user ID. You can also select Allow service to interact with desktop to enable remote control. Or select Use this account and fill in the user name and password under which the agent will be controlled.
- Non-Windows:
- Enter the Username under which the agent will run and the Group name.
- Click Finish to complete the managed system configuration. If any of the information provided is invalid, you will receive an error message and be returned to the configuration window. Check your entries and edit as appropriate to configure correctly.
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Agent tasks in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal