Remote Agent

A Remote Agent is an application that runs on every system being managed by the N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1. Remote Agents perform the tasks requested by the Master Server. The Remote Agents are supported on the Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, and Microsoft Windows 2000 platforms. Remote agents can do the following:

• Report server hardware and software configurations to the Master Server

• Start and stop services

• Manage directory contents and properties

• Install and uninstall software

• Run operating system commands and native scripts specified in component models