Configuring the agent on Windows® systems

You can configure the Azure Compute agent on Windows® operating systems by using the Monitoring window. After you update the configuration values, you must start the agent to save the updated values.

Procedure

1. Click Start > All Programs > IBM Monitoring agents > Monitoring.

2. In the IBM Performance Management window, right-click the Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute template, and then click Configure agent.

   Remember: After you configure an agent instance for the first time, the Configure agent option is not available. To configure the agent instance again, right-click on it and then click Reconfigure.

3. In the Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute window, enter a unique instance name for the Monitoring Agent for Azure Compute instance, and click OK.

4. Enter the Azure Subscription Credentials, then click Next.

   See Table 1 for an explanation of each of the configuration parameters.

   For Windows®:

   Important: If your Secret Key/Password contains an equal sign (=), you must reenter it each time that you reconfigure the agent.

5. Enter the Azure Compute Virtual Machine Subnode template settings. See Table 2 for an explanation of each of the configuration parameters.

   Note: It's not Azure Compute Virtual Machine Subnode instance configuration. It's a template section for settings that are used as the default values when you add the actual Azure Compute Virtual Machine Subnode instance configurations in step 6.

6. Press New and enter Azure Compute Virtual Machine Subnode instance settings, then click Next.

   See Table 2 for an explanation of each of the configuration parameters.

7. Click OK to complete the configuration.

8. In the Monitoring window, right-click the instance that you configured, and then click Start.