Chapter 7: MOM and SMS Agents

Highlights

Both MOM and SMS leverage agent programs and services to help them perform functions across a number of managed clients and servers. These agents are essential to the architecture of the systems management tools. In this chapter, we cover the following areas:

• An overview of MOM agents

• Configuration and deployment of MOM agents

• SMS agents

Specifically, we look at MOM agents to see how they work and how they should be configured and deployed. In addition, we also take a look at agents for SMS to understand how they fit in the systems management architecture and what functions they enable the systems management tools to perform.