Populating the agent depot
The agent depot is an installation directory on the monitoring server from which you deploy agents and maintenance packages across your environment. Before you can deploy any agents from a monitoring server, you must first populate the agent depot with bundles. A bundle is the agent installation image and any prerequisites.
When you add a bundle to the agent depot, you need to add the bundle that supports the operating system to which you want to deploy the bundle. For example, if you have a Windows Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and Web Response Time agent on Linux and you want to remote configure the Linux agent, the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server must have the Web Response Time Linux package in the depot. (If you are installing from different media for each platform type, for example, Windows, AIX® and Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, you need to add the bundle from the specific platform media for the component.)
- Populating the agent depot from the installation image
- Populating an agent depot with the tacmd addBundles command
Only Tivoli-provided product agent bundles should be loaded into the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring deployment depot. User-provided or customized bundles are not supported. Use only Tivoli provided tacmd commands to process bundles and to execute agent deployments. Manual manipulation of the depot directory structure or the bundles and files within it is not supported and may void your warranty.