Administration Guide > System Monitoring > Handling Agents

 Handling Agents

The Automation Engine offers various ways of starting, stopping and monitoring agents.

 Starting an Agent

General

ServiceManager

 Monitoring an Agent

System Overview
  • The System Overview provides a separate "Agents" category. Symbols show whether a particular agent is active and information is provided about the computer on which the agent has been installed.

ServiceManager
  • The ServiceManager Dialog Program also informs whether the agents are running or have been stopped.

Script Element
  • You can also use the script element SYS_HOST_ALIVE to check if an agent is active.

Host Characteristics
  • In the host characteristics (UC_HOSTCHAR_DEFAULT), you can define the executable object that should be activated when an agent is starts or ends (keys EXECUTE_ON_START and EXECUTE_ON_END).

 Stopping an Agent

System Overview
  • The "Agents" category of the System Overview provides the opportunity to stop agents.

ServiceManager
  • The ServiceManager Dialog Program or the Command Line Program can also be used to stop agents.

Script Element
  • The script element :TERMINATE is the third way of stopping an agent.

 

See also:

Agent