Common agent
Installed on managed systems, the common agent reports information about the managed system to the resource manager and performs tasks on the managed system as directed by the resource manager.
Note: Throughout
the IBM® Flex
System Manager documentation,
the term Common Agent (with
both words capitalized) refers to the IBM Flex
System Manager Common Agent, which includes
subagents that provide specific management capabilities for IBM Flex
System Manager. IBM Flex
System Manager can also
discover and perform limited management on other common agents that
use the common agent services (CAS) architecture. When
referring to these common agents generically,
lowercase text is used.
- Each common agent can use exactly one agent manager.
- Each common agent can
be managed by one or more instances of IBM Flex System
Manager.Note: All instances of IBM Flex System Manager must use the same agent manager, and the common agent must be registered with that agent manager.
When you discover a system that has a common agent on
it, the IBM Flex
System Manager Web interface will
list the system with a protocol of 'CAS'. The system will initially
have no access, but you can register the agent with the agent manager using one
of the following two methods, depending on the mode you used to install common agent services:
- Managed mode common agent services
- Common agent services registers the common agent with the agent manager during installation.
- Unmanaged mode common agent services
- Requesting and gaining access to the system registers the common agent with the default agent manager that is configured with IBM Flex System Manager.