Install and configure the Planning Analytics Administration agent (local only)

Local only If you have IBM® Planning Analytics Local version 2.0.5 or later installed, you can install and configure the Planning Analytics Administration agent for Microsoft Windows or Linux® operating systems.

To use IBM Planning Analytics Administration on Planning Analytics Workspace Local, you must install and configure the Planning Analytics Administration agent wherever you have installed IBM TM1® Server. The default port of the Planning Analytics Administration agent is 9012.

By default, the Planning Analytics Administration agent is selected as a component when you install Planning Analytics Local but it is not configured or started.

Note: You can upgrade your Planning Analytics Administration agent by installing a new version of Planning Analytics Local or by downloading a new version of the agent from Planning Analytics Workspace. For more information, see Planning Analytics Administration agent in Download additional components.

To upgrade an Planning Analytics Administration agent as part of a Planning Analytics Local upgrade, you must stop the Planning Analytics Administration agent service, back up your bootstrap.properties file, upgrade Planning Analytics Local selecting the Planning Analytics Administration agent component in the installation wizard, and then restart the Planning Analytics Administration agent. For more information, see Upgrading Planning Analytics Local.

Your changes to the bootstrap.propertes file are preserved when you upgrade the Planning Analytics Administration agent, however, the version of the agent is updated. On Windows, the version is updated when you upgrade using the Planning Analytics Local installation wizard. On Linux, the version is updated when you run ./startup_agent.sh install.

After you install or upgrade the agent, you must configure it. For more information, see Configure the agent for Windows or Configure the agent for Linux.