Configuring Sterling File Gateway monitoring

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The Monitoring Agent for Sterling File Gateway monitors the IBM® Sterling File Gateway application by using the business-to-business (B2B) REST APIs and file gateway database. You must configure the Sterling File Gateway agent so that the agent can collect data from the data sources and monitor the statistics and health of the Sterling File Gateway application. You can configure the agent on Windows and Linux® systems.

Before you begin

Review the hardware and software prerequisites, see Software Product Compatibility Reports for Sterling File Gateway agent.
Ensure that the B2B REST APIs are installed on your file gateway node. For more information about the B2B REST API installation, see Installing the B2B REST API.

About this task

The Sterling File Gateway agent is a multiple instance agent. You must create the first instance and start the agent manually.

To configure the agent on Windows systems, you can use the IBM Performance Management window or the silent response file.
To configure the agent on Linux systems, you can run the script and respond to prompts, or use the silent response file.