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About Agent Groups

You can also create agent groups, which are logical groupings of agents that facilitate their management. After you make an agent part of an agent group, you can change configurations, and start and stop all of the connectors in a group at the same time. As an example, you might decide to group agents by their physical, geographical region.

You can create groups and move agents between groups in the Agent Explorer. If you do not define an agent group, then all agents reside in a default group created when you install CA Enterprise Log Manager.

Agent configurations and agent group records are stored in the management server. Each time you install an agent, the management server makes the new agent available in the Agent Explorer for every CA Enterprise Log Manager server that it has registered under the same application instance name. This allows you to configure and control any agent from any CA Enterprise Log Manager server in the network.