Generating the ITM Agent

After successfully creating an ITM agent, use the steps provided here to generate it.

After the successful creation of the ITM Agent configuration, we need to generate it in order to deploy it in ITM. From the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring Agent Editor menu in the ITM Agent Builder choose Generate Agent. The Generate Agent Wizard will appear. This wizard has several options of Agent generation. If you use ITM and ITM Agent Builder on a single machine then the Generate the agent files in an ITM installation on this machine option is suitable for you. The only field which needs to be configured is the ITM installation directory. Click Finish to generate and deploy the ITM Agent in ITM. This may take several minutes to complete.

Note: If you want to have the agent on another machine then you can use another agent generation option – Create a compressed file so that the agent can be installed on another system. This will generate an archive that contains the ITM Agent installation. To install such an archived agent, you first have to copy the file to the machine where ITM is installed. Extract the files from the archive and from the command prompt start the InstallIRA.bat file with parameter the ITM installation folder.

For example if ITM is installed in C:\IBM\ITM the command will look like:

<AgentDirectory>:\>InstallIRA.bat C:\IBM\ITM