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Configure Agents and Register a Trusted Host in GUI or Console Mode

You can configure your SOA Agents and register a trusted host immediately after installing the SOA Agent or at a later time; however, the host must be registered to communicate with the Policy Server.

Note: You only register the host once, not each time you install and configure a SOA Agent on your system.

These instructions are for GUI and Console Mode registration. The steps for the two modes are the same, with the following exceptions for Console mode:

• You may be instructed to select an option by entering a corresponding number for that option.
• You press Enter after each step to proceed through the process. The prompts should guide you through the process.
• All passwords that you enter are displayed in clear text. To workaround this issue, run the installation in GUI or unattended mode.

To configure Agents and register a trusted host

1. If necessary, start the Configuration Wizard as follows:
   1. Open a console window.
   2. Navigate to agent_home/install_config_info, where agent_home is the installed location of the SOA Agent. Specific locations for each SOA Agent type exist in the SOA Security Manager SOA Agent Configuration Guide.
   3. Enter one of the following commands:

      GUI Mode: ./ca-pep-config.bin

      Console Mode: ./ca-pep-config.bin -i console

   The Configuration Wizard starts.

2. Use gathered system and component information to configure the SOA Agent and register the host.

   Note: If you choose to configure multiple Agents, you can set the Register with same Policy Server option to register them all with the same Policy Server.

When the wizard completes, the host is registered and a host configuration file, SmHost.conf, is created in agent_home/config. You can modify this file.

agent_home

Is the installed location of the SOA Agent.