Overview of Agent Builder

You can use IBM® Agent Builder to create and modify custom agents that extend the monitoring capabilities of an IBM Tivoli® Monitoring, IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management environment. A custom agent uses either of these environments to monitor any type of in-house or customized software.

Agent Builder is based on Eclipse, an open source integrated development environment.

Agent Builder includes the following features for the Tivoli Monitoring and Cloud APM environments:

Define and modify agents

You can create and modify agents. The agents collect and analyze data about the state and performance of different resources, such as disks, memory, processor, or applications, and provide this data to the monitoring environment.

Test and prepare agents for deployment

You can test an agent within Agent Builder, collecting data on the host where Agent Builder runs (in some cases you can collect information from a different host too). You can package the agent for easy distribution and deployment.

The following additional features are available for Tivoli Monitoring:

Custom workspaces, situations and Take Action commands

You can use Agent Builder to package additional workspaces, situations and Take Action commands as application support extensions with a new or existing agent running in the Tivoli Monitoring environment

Report data models

You can use Agent Builder to generate a Cognos® data model which you can use to build Tivoli Common Reporting reports. These reports can be packaged as part of your agent image.