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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Deployment options for agentless monitors
As with other IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents, you can either install agentless monitors or deploy them from your site's deployment depot.
When installing Tivoli Monitoring, you can add the agentless monitors to your site's deployment depot
You also have the full range of remote-deployment options, as explained in Deployment phase, at your disposal when planning how best to deploy agentless monitors across your environment. These include:
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal's deployment features.
- The tacmd CLI commands.
As required for the deployment of any IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent, remote deployment of an agentless monitor to an agentless monitoring server requires that an OS agent be running on that machine. For example, if the agentless monitor runs on an AIX operating system, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring AIX agent must first be running on it to remotely deploy that agentless monitor. In addition, the OS agent is required to configure a server's agentless monitors via the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
The agentless monitors are included on the same Agents DVD as the traditional OS agents.
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Agentless monitoring versus monitoring agents