The Remote Agent is an application that runs on every server being managed by the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0. 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 by components and plans