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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
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.
The action taken will persist until you use the opposing action or start or stop an agent with another method (Tivoli Enterprise Portal, Manage Tivoli Monitoring Services, or at the command line). In the Agents Management Status table view, right-click the row of the agent whose status you want to change, then select the action:
For example, to start managing the Windows OS Agent (displayed in the Agent Management Services workspace, Agent Management Status view as Unmanaged), right-click the row and click Take Action > Select. Select the AMS Start Management action from the list of possible actions. The command reads, NT:AMS_Start_Manage "Windows OS Agent". Click OK to start managing the agent. After you click Refresh, the Universal Agent status changes to Managed.
- AMS Recycle Agent Instance
- Use this action to stop and and restart a particular instance of the monitoring agent.
- AMS Reset Agent Restart Count
- Use this agent to return to 0 the count of agent attempts to restart.
- AMS Start Agent
- Use this action to start an agent that is under the management of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Management Services. For a multi-instance agent, use AMS Start Agent Instance.
- AMS Stop Agent
- Use this action to stop an agent that is under the management of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Management Services.
- AMS Start Agent Instance
- Use this action to start a particular instance of the monitoring agent.
- AMS Start Management
- Use this action to put an agent under the management of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Management Services. This is useful when the agent was taken offline intentionally and you are ready to resume running the agent and having it managed.
- AMS Stop Management
- Use this action to remove an agent from management by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Management Services. This is useful when you want to take an agent offline and not have it restarted automatically.
For further information on each command and Take Action commands in general, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide and the user's guide for the specific agent.
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Take action commands