Creating Agents
The Agent Status dashboard can be used to create new agents and configure and manage existing agents. To access the page from the navigation pane, select Administration > Agents > Agent Status.
To create a new agent instance:
- Deploy the DocumentDB agent package to the FglAM hosting the agent before creating an agent. You can click Deploy Agent Package on the Agent Status or Agent Managers page to perform this.
- Click Create Agent and follow the instructions on the wizard: a. Host Selector - Select the Agent Manager on which the agent should run. Considerations for this may include physical or virtual locality to the monitored instance, allocated resources, or grouping with other agents of the same type or monitored environment. b. Agent Type and Instance Name – Select the DocumentDBAgent type. Then, select the Specify Name radio button and enter the agent instance name to be created in the Name field. This is representative of the database instance that the agent will monitor, rather than canonical. c. Summary – Click Finish.
- Once the agent gets created, select the checkbox against its name.
- Click Edit Properties.
- Select Modify the default properties for this agent.
- Edit the agent properties for the agent instance
- Click Activate.
To modify the properties of an existing agent, skip to step 3, deactivate the agent, update the configuration, and then reactivate it.
