Activating Electronic Service Agent

You must activate Electronic Service Agent to enable problem detection, reporting, and transmission of service information to IBM® Support.

To activate Electronic Service Agent, you must perform the following tasks:

  1. Configuring the service connection to IBM so that Electronic Service Agent can report problems and send service information.
  2. Testing the service connection to IBM.
  3. Specifying contact and location information so that IBM Support knows the location of the system running Electronic Service Agent and who to contact about a problem sent to IBM Support by Electronic Service Agent.

After activating Electronic Service Agent, problem monitoring and service information collection functions become active and reporting to IBM Support begins.