Installing Platform Agent

Important:

• It is not necessary to separately install Common Agent or Platform Agent.
• Use the Deploy Agents wizard in the management software web interface to deploy Platform Agent. See Deploying agents for more information.
• The IBM® i Platform Agent is provided with the IBM i Licensed Program Product IBM Universal Manageability Enablement for IBM i (5770-UME or 5722-UME). Refer to the IBM i documentation for details.
• Ensure that the system clocks on systems that contain IBM Flex System Manager and Platform Agent remain synchronized.
• If you have BMC, IMM, or IMM2 service processors, use Platform Agent 6.1.1 or later to help ensure full functionality and support.
• If you have RSA service processors, use Core Services 5.20.x to help ensure full functionality and support. If you do decide to use Platform Agent 6.3.2 or later, you must first uninstall Core Services 5.20.x before installing Platform Agent.
  Restriction: Platform Agent 6.3.2 and later will block updates on Core Services 5.20.x systems and RSA service processors. You will no longer be able to manage the RSA in-band. You can manage it out-of-band by connecting it to the network and discovering it with IBM Flex System Manager.
• Discovery of Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) devices is no longer supported. Therefore, you cannot use IBM Flex System Manager to manage new installations of RSA devices.
• Platform Agent 6.1.1 and later uses a newer version of the LSI MR provider. This provider will not function properly with older versions of the LSI device drivers. In order to ensure that CIM data and alerts function properly with LSI devices, it is important that the device drivers are at the latest levels for all Platform Agent systems.
• See "Installing and uninstalling KVM Platform Agent" for considerations regarding the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Note: If you are upgrading agents manually on a previously discovered endpoint, you must discover the endpoint again after the upgrade. Discovering the endpoint again allows the correct functionality to be reflected in IBM Flex System Manager. For example if you are upgrading an endpoint from Agentless managed system to Platform Agent through the manual agent installation script, you must then discover the endpoint again with IBM Flex System Manager.