Testing your agent in Agent Builder

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After you use Agent Builder to create an agent, you can test the agent in Agent Builder.

Test the agent to ensure that the monitoring data you are expecting is the data that is being displayed. By testing your agent, you can learn to modify or tweak settings in the agent to ensure that the data displayed is beneficial and accurate.

You can test your agent in Agent Builder by using the following methods:
  1. Begin by using the attribute group test function of Agent Builder to test individual attribute groups one at a time. For more information, see Attribute group testing.
  2. After you complete attribute group testing, you can use the agent test function of Agent Builder to test all attribute groups in your agent together. For more information, see Full agent testing.
Important: When testing your agent in Agent Builder, you can see the following special values for numeric attributes:
  • -1: a general error
  • -2: missing data
  • -3: no value (for example, NULL was returned by a database)