In Unicenter NSM, agent management deals with your ability to monitor various enterprise resources like systems, databases, and applications. The agents collect the specified metrics from the resources and report back to the designated manager. Data returned from agents helps you to quickly take corrective actions and keep your systems running properly. The status of the agents is managed by the DSM (Distributed State Machine). You access the agents through a designated DSM manager host in the enterprise.
Most agents let you customize what you want to monitor through the use of watchers. You can define and modify the watchers with the classic GUIs or with Unicenter MP.
The agent scoreboards in Unicenter MP provide summary views of the various agents and their status for different resource groups. This gives you a high‑level view of the status of their resources.
The agent dashboards in Unicenter MP provide a more detailed state of the agents. You can drill-down into a single agent and also add, modify, or delete the watchers for that agent along with other configurations of the agent.
You can also schedule and run agent reports to show the status of DSM objects that meet certain criteria. Unicenter MP provides a set of predefined reports, and you can also create reports by customizing the predefined reports or using provided report templates.
Before accessing the agent scoreboards and dashboards or running reports, you need to define a connection to a DSM host. Specify this DSM connection when you create the scoreboards or dashboards.
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