Installing your agent into a monitoring infrastructure for testing and use
After you test your agent in Agent Builder, you can install the agent into an existing IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring, IBM Cloud Application Performance Management or IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management environment for further testing and for use.
Installing and testing your agent in a monitoring infrastructure has the following benefits:
- You can configure and test multiple instances of an agent that run simultaneously.
- You can configure and test multiple instances of subnodes that run simultaneously.
- In a Tivoli Monitoring environment, you can build workspaces, situations, actions, and queries in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Important: Deploy initial versions of your agent into a test version of
the monitoring infrastructure. On Tivoli Monitoring,
use a separate monitoring server and portal server. On Cloud APM, use a test
cloud account or a separate test deployment of the on-premises monitoring server. Deploy the final
version of your agent on a production infrastructure.
If you deploy a version of the agent on the production monitoring infrastructure and then change any data sets in the agent, the new version might conflict with the older version on the server. In this case it might be impossible to use any version of the agent.