Configuring Agents


An agent is a deployment package that enables you to manage nodes. After you deploy an agent to a node, it enables you to collect data, discover services, monitor events, and run actions and commands that control the node.

Before HPOM for Windows 8.00, management servers and agents communicated using DCE/RPC. HPOM 8.10 includes an agent that communicates using HTTPS. Although the DCE agent is currently still supported, you are encouraged to use the HTTPS agent for new nodes. If nodes already exist in your environment that have DCE agents, consider migrating to the HTTPS agent.

The HTTPS agent offers the following benefits: