Managing Adapter Agents

The adapter agent must be started when using the Adapter administration to view and monitor adapters.

An adapter agent is a daemon process that is used to provision adapter nodes and applications, perform administration commands, and synchronize data from the datastore. In addition to use the adapteradmin utility, you can also use the Admin UI to view and monitor adapters, by registering an adapter agent with a TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server, as described in Registering an Adapter Agent with a TEA Server.

An adapter agent is typically part of an agent group. Each agent acts as a communication agent that makes commands distributed through multiple adapter agents simultaneously. For more details, see Creating an Agent Group.

Note: The adapter agent only runs in the enterprise mode. In the enterprise mode, data is synchronized with the administration database that is located in TIBCO ActiveSpaces. If your BusinessWorks application contains adapter activities and processes, you can use the bwadmin utility to manage the application.