Use the Agent Sites notebook to define an agent site to the Data Warehouse Center. You must install an agent on an agent site before you define it to the Data Warehouse Center.
A Data Warehouse Center agent transfers data from a source to a target. It also runs Data Warehouse Center supplied programs, user-defined programs, transformers, and stored procedures. The agent accomplishes these tasks by running processes that you define in the Process Modeler.
An agent can run on a separate workstation or system from the workstation on which the Data Warehouse Center resides, or it can run on the same workstation or system.
When you install the Data Warehouse Center, an agent is installed on the same workstation or system. This agent is known as a default agent. Besides the default agent, you can have other agents installed on the local workstation or system.
If you want your agent to access a user object, such as a LAN drive, you should specify the Data Warehouse Center to run as a user process instead of as a system process.
No authority level is required to define an agent site to the Data Warehouse Center.
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