Configuration : Arranging the Shared Secret for the Management Agents

Arranging the Shared Secret for the Management Agents
After you have configured all the agents on a particular WebSphere host, you can arrange the shared secret that they use to communicate with Policy Manager. Since the shared secret is shared in common by a Policy Manager instance and all the agents that communicate with it, you can simultaneously arrange the secret for all the agents co-located on a particular WebSphere host. (However, you must repeat this task separately for each WebSphere host where you configure a management agent.)
1.
Paste the encrypted secret as an argument. This value must be identical to the shared secret you supplied to Policy Manager.
Specify the Policy Manager instance that manages the agent.
2.
If you change the location of the trust directory for a WebSphere host, then you must stop and restart all the application servers on that host.
Otherwise (that is, for subsequent changes to the secret, in which the trust directory location does not change), you do not need to stop and restart the application servers; their management agents refresh themselves at 60-second intervals.
See Also
SetSharedSecretForManagementAgent on page 55