Configuring the agent on Windows systems

You can configure the IBM® Cloud agent on Windows operating systems by using the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management window. After you update the configuration values, you must start the agent to save the updated values.

Procedure

  1. Click Start > All Programs > IBM Monitoring agents > IBM Cloud Application Performance Management.
  2. In the IBM Performance Management window, right-click the Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud template, and then click Configure agent.
    Remember: After you configure an agent instance for the first time, the Configure agent option is unavailable. To configure the agent instance again, right-click on it and then click Reconfigure....
  3. Enter a unique instance name then click OK. Use only Latin letters, Arabic numerals, and the hyphen-minus character in the instance name. Example, icloud-inst.
  4. Click Next on the agent instance name window.
  5. Press New and enter IBM Cloud SoftLayer username and API Key settings, then click Next.
  6. Click OK to complete the configuration.
  7. In the IBM Cloud Application Performance Management window, right-click the instance that you configured, and then click Start.