Installing the Agents

Agents are programs that run on the target system, which can be either an Operating System or an application such as SAP, PeopleSoft, etc. They not only establish the connection between the Automation Engine and those target systems but also start the execution of tasks and make both their monitoring and the corresponding reporting possible.

System Overview

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Agent Installation Types

During the installation of the Automation Engine, there are two different Agent installation types available:

• Manual agent installation, which refers to the manual installation of on-premises Agents, see Installing the Agents Manually.

• Containerized agent installation, which refers to building and running a Docker image hosting either a Windows, UNIX, or Java Agent in a container, see Installing Containerized Agents.

Regardless of the agent installation type you decide to implement, you can use your Agents in on-premises Automic Automation systems as well as in an Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition system.

You can also install Agents later on via the Automic Web Interface in the Process Assembly perspective of Client 0 or in the Administration perspective of any client. For more information, see Adding and Configuring Agents.

Additional installation steps are required before the Agent can be started and used if you intend to use one of the available authentication methods. For more information, see Agent Authentication.

Prerequisites

During a manual installation, before installing the Agents you must have installed the following components:

• Preparing the AE Database
• Installing the Utilities
• Loading the AE Database
• Installing the Automation Engine (AE)
• Installing the Online Documentation

When installing an Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition system, you must have covered the following topics:

• Preparing for the Container-Based Installation
• Installing and Migrating Container-Based Systems

Agent List

All agents available for the corresponding installation type are listed below. To see the instructions on how to install them please click the relevant link.

On-Premises Manual Agent Installation

The on-premises, manual Agent installation allows you to install TLS/SSL and non-TLS/SSL Agents. For more information, see Installing the Agents Manually.

The Agents available for this installation type are the following:

• Installing the Agent for BS2000

• Installing the Agent for Databases

  • Installing the Agent for Database Jobs and Events

  • Installing the Agent for Database Variables

• Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (Standalone)

• Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (Application Server)

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (Oracle WebLogic)

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (IBM WebSphere) with RMI Connector

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (IBM WebSphere) with SOAP Connector

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (JBoss)

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (Oracle Containers for Java EE)

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (SAP NetWeaver)

  • Installing the Agent for Java EE/JMX (Tomcat)

• Installing the Agent for NSK

• Installing the Agent for OS/400

• Installing the Agent for PeopleSoft (Windows)

• Installing the Agent for Rapid Automation

• Installing the Agent for SAP

• Installing the Agent for x64 Linux (Java)

• Installing the Agent for other UNIX Platforms

• Installing the Agent for VMS

• Installing the Agent for x64 Windows (Java)

• Installing the Agent for Windows

• Installing the Agent for z/OS

• Installing SNMP

• Installing the TLS Gateway

Containerized Agent Installation

The containerized Agent installation does not support non-TLS/SSL Agents. For more information, see Installing Containerized Agents.

The Agents available for this installation type are the following:

• Installing Containerized Java Agents

• Installing Containerized UNIX Agents

• Installing Containerized Windows Agents

See also:

• Manual Installation
• Container-Based Installation - Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition