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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Agent tasks in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
The Navigator Physical view in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal displays the managed systems in your monitored network. From the Navigator menu, you can remotely deploy and manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents that run on distributed operating systems and that connect to a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server that runs on a distributed operating system.
Before you can remotely install and configure agents, each target computer must have an operating system (OS) agent installed. Monitoring agents that do not support the remote agent deployment feature do not show the Add Managed System, Configure, and Remove options in the Navigator pop-up menu. The types of managed systems that you can add to a computer depend on what agent bundles are in the agent depot on the monitoring server that the OS agent is connected to.
- Add an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client to add individual managed systems to the monitored network.
- 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.
- Start, stopping, and recycling an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
You can start an offline managed system, or recycle or stop it through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
- Update an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
When a new version of a distributed monitoring agent is released, you can apply the new version locally or remotely to one managed system at a time, or to many simultaneously. Use the Configure Managed System window in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client to apply the update.
- Remove an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
You can also uninstall monitoring agents from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal by stopping the agent and removing its configuration settings. After you have removed the agent from the enterprise, you can completely uninstall the agent from the managed system. When you remove an agent, it is removed from any managed system groups to which it is assigned, any situation or policy distribution lists it was on, and any custom Navigator view items to which it was assigned.
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