Intelligent Agents

Intelligent agents are Java-based software components that are capable of learning certain behaviors over time through complex autonomic algorithms. Intelligent agents can have many different capabilities, from simply monitoring for certain events to more complex actions like analyzing network problems, preventing unplanned system restarts, or managing storage. Although the goal of using agents is to simplify the system administrators tasks through autonomic computing, system administrators still need a way of starting, stopping, responding to, and monitoring the actions of their agents.

The Intelligent Agents console for System i Navigator provides system administrators with an easy way to manage one or more ABLE agents running on a single system or across different systems. After the agent console connects to the agent services that exist across your domain, you can monitor and work with any number of preconfigured agents on any of the systems in your domain.