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Agent

The agent enables the execution of jobs, file transfers, console and file system events, thereby allowing the processing of various operation steps in a target system.

Object class: System object
Object type (short name): HOST

Creating an Agent object manually is neither possible nor necessary as this is done automatically and saved in the folder HOST (system client 0000) at the very first agent logon to the AE system. The same is true if you want to rename the Agent object.

The name of an agent is defined in its INI file and cannot be comprised of more than 32 characters. All agent names will be displayed in uppercase. Do not use special national language characters in order to avoid problems in the respective target system. Note that an agent cannot be selected in other objects if its name consists of more than the allowed maximum number of characters.

For Rapid Automation agent documentation, see the Automic Hosted Documentation.