The agent depot is an installation directory on the monitoring server from which you deploy agents and maintenance packages across your environment. Before you can deploy any agents from a monitoring server, you must first populate the agent depot with bundles. A bundle is the agent installation image and any prerequisites.
When you add a bundle to the agent depot, you need to add the bundle that supports the operating system to which you want to deploy the bundle. For example, if you want to deploy a DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows agent bundle to a computer running HP-UX, add the HP-UX-specific agent bundle to the depot. If your depot directory is on Windows and you want to deploy the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows agent to HP-UX, load the HP-UX bundle from the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows agent installation media for HP-UX. (If you are installing from different media for each platform type, for example, Windows, AIX® and Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, you need to add the bundle from the specific platform media for the component.)
You can have an agent depot on each monitoring server in your environment or share an agent depot, as described in Sharing an agent depot across your environment. If you choose to have an agent depot for each monitoring server, you can customize the agent depot based on the types of bundles that you want to deploy and manage from that monitoring server. For example, if you have a monitoring server dedicated to monitoring the DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows agents in your environment, populate the depot with DB2-related agent bundles. If you deploy an agent from a remote monitoring server, you must have a agent bundle in the depot available to the monitoring server.
There are two methods to populate the agent depot: