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Bundle groups
Bundle groups organize and represent the components that you deploy. These include IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents and Netcool SSM agents. Deployable bundles are added as members to bundle groups using the tacmd command by specifying the agent's product code and optionally the platform and version for the bundle.
To enable bulk deployment of more than one agent at a time, you add multiple members to the bundle group representing multiple agents to deploy. For example, you might create a bundle group to deploy a Windows OS agent and a DB2 application agent by adding a member with product code NT and a member with product code UD. Since one of these members is an OS agent, you use the tacmd createNode command to deploy this bundle group.
If you had created a bundle group containing only application agents, such as DB2, Domino, or SAP agents, you deploy them using the tacmd addSystem command. Each bundle group member represents a deployment bundle that must be added to the appropriate agent depot using the tacmd addBundles command before a bulk deployment command is executed involving the bundle group. To avoid the complexity of managing multiple depots, consider using a shared agent depot; see Sharing an agent depot across your environment.
- Bundle groups best practices
There are a number of best practices associated with bundle groups.
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Organizing deployments using groups