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Agent Bridge

The Agent Bridge is a CA ITCM enhancement that provides backwards compatibility for extended and legacy agents based on the current version of CA ITCM. You can gather information obtained from mobile agents and then distribute jobs, modules, templates, and configurations to those agents.

Note: The Agent Bridge is supported on Microsoft Windows only.

Note: The agent platforms supported by the Agent Bridge in this release are Windows Mobile 6.1 (ARM-based, including StrongARM, XScale), Windows Mobile 6 (Classic, Standard, Professional) (ARM-based, including StrongARM, XScale, TI OMAP), and Windows Mobile 5 (ARM-based, including StrongARM, XScale).

Major Components

The Agent Bridge consists of the following components:

• Common legacy server component and its process components

  Handles communication for the Agent Bridge, configuration, and agent registration.

• Asset Management components

  Provide server support for extended and legacy asset management agents.

• Software Delivery components

  Provide server support for extended and legacy software delivery agents.

Note: Asset management and software delivery legacy agents installed on the same machine should point to the same CA ITCM Release 12.8 scalability server with Agent Bridge enabled.