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Deploy OS agents
Before you can deploy any non-OS agent, first install an OS agent on the computer where you want the non-OS agent to be deployed. In addition to monitoring base OS performance, the OS agent also installs the required infrastructure for remote deployment and maintenance.
- On Windows: IBM Tivoli Monitoring does not support more than one OS agent installation on the same machine. You can not use different directories to install more than one OS agent on the same Windows machine.
- Populate the agent depot before attempting to deploy any agents.
You can install the OS agent locally, as described in Install monitoring agents or remotely using the tacmd createNode command.
The tacmd createNode command creates a directory on the target computer called the node. The OS and non-OS agents are deployed in this directory. Agent application support is also added at this time
The tacmd createNode command uses one of the following protocols to connect to the computers on which you want to install the OS agent:
- Server Message Block (SMB), used primarily for Windows servers
- Secure Shell (SSH), used primarily by UNIX servers, but also available on Windows
Only SSH version 2 is supported.
- Remote Execution (REXEC), used primarily by UNIX servers, but not very secure
- Remote Shell (RSH), used primarily by UNIX servers, but not very secure
You can specify a protocol to use; if you do not, the tacmd createNode command selects the appropriate protocol dynamically.
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