You can start an offline managed system, or recycle or stop it through the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal.
Before you begin
To use this feature, your user ID must have Manage permission for Agent Management.
About this task
All deployment commands are passed through the operating system agent that is installed at the target computer. If an operating system agent is not installed, you cannot start or stop the deployed agent.
Procedure
- To start a monitoring agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal:
- In the Navigator Physical view, right-click the Navigator
item of the offline
agent. - Click
Start. The request to
start the monitoring agent is sent to the monitoring server to which
it is connected. Depending on your monitoring configuration, it might
take a few moments before the agent starts running and to see the
Navigator item enabled. If the monitoring agent
does not start and you get an error message, the computer might be
unavailable.
- In the Navigator Physical view, right-click the Navigator
item of the offline
- To stop a monitoring agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal:
- In the Navigator physical view, right-click the
agent to stop. - Click
Stop. The agent
goes offline and the Navigator item is dimmed. The agent does not
come online until you start it manually or, if it is set to start
automatically, after you restart the monitoring server to which it
is connected.
- In the Navigator physical view, right-click the
- To recycle a monitoring agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal:
- In the Navigator physical view, right-click the agent to stop.
- Click
Restart to stop, then start the
monitoring agent. This might take a short time depending on the network
traffic.
- In the Navigator physical view, right-click the