Before an agent can perform work on behalf of its users, it must initialize connections to one or more Policy Servers by issuing the init() method. Through the InitDef parameter, you can specify connection parameters such as failover mode and connection pool size. This step creates TCP connections and typically does not need to be done more than once per agent instance.
After the Agent API is initialized, all API calls are fully thread-safe with respect to the initialized API instance.
It is possible to initialize more than one API instance (for example, when working with Policy Servers that use separate policy stores).
Immediately after initialization, the agent should communicate its version information to the Policy Server by calling doManagement() with the constant MANAGEMENT_SET_AGENT_INFO set in the ManagementContextDef object. The actual information can be any string containing enough information about the agent, such as the build number, and the version number. The string is recorded in the Policy Server logs.
After the Agent API has been initialized, the agent can perform useful work. At this point it can start accepting requests from its users, such as receiving GET requests for URLs.
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