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 TEA server. See Registering an Adapter Agent with a TEA Server for details.

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.

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.
Note: To use an external relational database for persistence and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) for transport among adapteragents, see adapteragent Configuration for using Database/EMS.