Deployment model for the Agent Controller

The Agent Controller's deployment model consists of multiple development hosts that use the test client to interact with multiple applications that reside on many different hosts on the network.

A simple deployment diagram is illustrated below:

Deployment diagram

Each application process can have zero or more agents running within it. Each host also has services that are provided by the Agent Controller. The Agent Controller handles all communication meaning that the test client does not interact with either the services or the agents directly. Instead, the client  sends all of its requests to the Agent Controller on the host that contains the application. It is on the deployment hosts that these requests are authenticated and routed to the target agent or service. Commands and data that are generated by the agents and services must also be routed to the Agent Controller, from where they are then transmitted to the test client.

Related tasks
Administering the Agent Controller
 


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