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Agent Groups

An Agent group is a collection of Agents of the same type grouped together for common resource protection. The advantage of Agent Groups is that you can provide access to the same resource to a larger user base because the resource is duplicated on many servers/SOA Agents. It also saves time because you define only one policy for all of the SOA Agents. For example, you can use an Agent group to protect a group of servers that use round robin processing to supply access to the same web service resources.

You can create Agent groups even if the Agents you want to include in a group have not yet been created. Once you add a new Agent in SOA Security Manager, you can edit an Agent group and add the new Agent to the group.

Note: If you configure Agent groups, you cannot directly assign a set of parameter values to an Agent group. You can assign the same Agent Configuration Object to multiple agents and edit the object.