Planning for administrative agents
An administrative agent provides a single interface to administer multiple standalone application servers.
Before you begin
Make sure that the nodes that you want the administrative agent to manage have the same products as the administrative agent, and the products are at the same version levels on these node and the administrative agent. This requirement is enforced because the administrative agent must have a matching environment in order to handle all of the administrative capabilities of the registered node. A node is not allowed to register with an administrative agent unless that node has an identical set of products and versions.
About this task
An administrative agent can monitor and control multiple application servers on one or more nodes. By using a single interface to administer your application servers, you reduce the overhead of running administrative services in every application server.
Use the WebSphere Customization Toolbox or the zpmt command and the customization jobs that they generate to configure an administrative agent on z/OS. The administrative agent must run on the same z/OS system as the application server nodes that it manages, and it must use the same SAF configuration group as the nodes to be managed.
An administrative agent can register any of the profiles that it manages with a job manager.
For more information, read the Administering nodes using the administrative agent article in the information center.
Procedure
- Print a copy of the customization worksheet.
- Fill out the worksheet as described in z/OS customization variables: Administrative agents.
- Save the worksheet for use during administrative agent customization.