Management Agent

Server Manager uses Management Agents that are installed on the physical machines that run JD Edwards EnterpriseOne server products. These Management Agents communicate directly with the Management Console and are instructed to perform operations as a result of user actions in the Management Console web application.

The Management Agent is based on the JMX Java management specifications. Management Agents interact only with the Management Console web application; however, much of the work, such as starting and stopping servers, is actually performed by the Management Agent.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne server products contain an embedded variant of the Management Agent. This Management Agent is responsible for providing the runtime information about an active server instance to the Management Console web application.

The Managed Home Agent is a standalone Management Agent which functions as an installed daemon process.

The responsibilities of the Management Agent within Server Manager include:

• Creating, registering, uninstalling, and updating the EnterpriseOne servers.

• Starting and stopping any managed EnterpriseOne server.

• Managing the configuration files used by the EnterpriseOne server.

• Providing access to the log files generated by the EnterpriseOne server.

• Providing basic management of the third-party application servers on which the web-based EnterpriseOne server products run.

• Transferring and managing a local copy of EnterpriseOne server software components (that is, the Tools Releases).

The Server Manager Management Console web application determines whether the Management Agent should be updated. If so, the Management Agents are updated using the Management Console.