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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Agent Management Services
Use the Agent Management Services to monitor the availability of agents and respond automatically (such as with a restart) if the agent becomes unhealthy or exits unexpectedly. By using these services, you can see improved agent availability ratings.
- Features of the Tivoli Agent Management Services
The Agent Management Services relies only on attributes that are common to all agents (such as file system installation location, file system log file location, and executable name), and APIs that are common to operating systems (such as enumerating the list of running processes). Using this information, the Agent Management Services improves agent availability and provides a simple, unified interface for the view and control of the agents' availability.
- Tivoli Agent Management Services installation and configuration
The Agent Management Services is installed automatically with the Linux OS agent, UNIX OS agent, or Windows OS agent, depending on the host platform. Application support files for these agents are also installed on the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
- Monitor the availability of agents
Agent Management Services responds to a stopped or reconfigured agent by restarting it. The Agent Management Services determines that the agent is stopped based on its type, the command specified in the <availabilityStatusScript> element of the CAP file, or both.
- Manage the agent manually
From the Agent Management Services workspace for the agent, you can run these Take Action commands to start, stop, manage, and unmanage agents.