Agents Overview

Agents Overview

Agents

Agent resources refer to Universal Agents, running programs on one or more remote machines, connected to the Controller via Universal Message Service (OMS).

OMS must be running in order for you to run tasks on an Agent.

There are four types of Agents:

Displaying Agent Details

When you start an Agent for the first time, the Controller automatically creates a database record for that Agent. You can view these records for details and status information.

(You also can view status information about Agents from the Command Line Interface (CLI).)
 

Step 1

From the Agents & Connections navigation pane, select Agents > All Agents or Agents > <type of agent>. An Agents list displays:
 


 
See Agents List Field Descriptions, below, for a description of the columns on an Agent List.

Step 2

To display Details about an Agent on the list, click the details icon or click anywhere in the Agent row.
 


 
Most fields are display-only; however, you can make the following changes:

You also can choose to:

  • Temporarily suspend the agent's ability to run tasks.

 

 

For information on how to access additional details - such as Metadata and complete database Details - for Agent (or any type of record), see Records.

Agents List Column Descriptions

The following table describes the default display columns on an Agents list.

Column

Description

Column

Description

Name

Host Name

Type

Agent ID

Version

Last Heartbeat

Current Task Count

System supplied; current number of tasks currently being run by this Agent.

Suspended

Specification (true or false) for whether or not this Agent has been suspended from the ability to run tasks.

Status

Started Date

Time stamp of when the Agent started or connected.

Updated By

User that last updated this record.

Updated

Date when this record was last updated.

Member of Business Service

Business Services that this Agent belongs to.