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SOA Agent Configuration Overview

The two options for configuring a SOA Agent are:

• Central configuration

  Indicates that the SOA Agent is configured from the Policy Server. The policy store holds the set of configuration parameters to be used by a group of SOA Agents. Parameters are configured using the Administrative UI.

  The Agent configuration is specified in an Agent Configuration Object.

• Local configuration

  Indicates that the SOA Agent is configured from a local configuration file on each web server where the Agent is installed.

You can store some parameters centrally and others locally.

Note: You can only enable and disable the SOA Agent from the local Agent configuration file, not from the Policy Server. This is true whether you are configuring centrally or locally.