Steps for configuring the Policy Agent

Step 1: Configure general information
Before defining policies, you need to configure some basic operational characteristics of the Policy Agent.

Step 2: Configure Policy Agent as a policy server
Define the port for clients to connect, and policy client matching statements to select the configuration files to be used for clients. Create user IDs on the server to match the user IDs of clients, and set up security.

Step 3: Configure Policy Agent as a policy client
You can use the Policy Agent as a policy client.

Step 4: Configure policies in Policy Agent configuration files

Step 5: Configure Policy Agent to use the LDAP server using the ReadFromDirectory statement

Step 6: Configure Policy Agent for configuration file import services
You can connect an import requester to the Policy Agent to provide policy configuration file or TCP/IP profile information import services.

Step 7: Configuring Policy Agent to automatically monitor applications
You can use the Policy Agent to automatically start, stop, and monitor a set of related applications. Policy Agent starts the applications and monitors them to ensure that they remain active.

Steps for configuring the Policy Agent

Before you begin

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