Registering an Agent

A product is exposed to the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator through an agent. When you register an agent corresponding to a product, the agent ensures that the product is visible on TIBCO Enterprise Administrator.

1. Login to TIBCO Enterprise Administrator. The username and the password is admin.
   The landing page is displayed.
2. Click the Agents button on the right.
   The Agent Management Pane is displayed.

   Note: As an alternative, you can also click and select Agent Management.
3. Click Register New.
   The Register New window is displayed.

   Caution: Agents built with the higher version of the library cannot be registered with the lower version of the server. For example, an agent built with the 1.3.0 version of the library cannot be registered with the 1.2.0 version of the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server.
4. Provide the following details:
   • Agent Name
   • Agent URL
   • Agent Description

   Warning: When registering agents, ensure that the agent IDs do not collide.
5. Click Register.
   The agent is visible in the Agent Management pane. The landing page also shows an icon for every registered agent. Your landing page will look different from the one displayed depending on the agents registered.

   Note: If the agent is not immediately visible in the pane, try refreshing the browser.

   Note: If you are an agent developer, and if you have the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator SDK variant installed, some sample agents are available to you at <TIBCO_HOME>\tea\<version>\samples. The samples folder is not available in the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server variant.

   The Landing Page Showing Registered Agents

   

   Note: If there are two agents for the same object type, ensure that they have the same operation name and number. This is to ensure that when you invoke an operation, you can select the agent on which you want to execute the operation from the drop-down list.

   Note: If the URL used during registration is invalid, the 404-Page not Found error occurs.

   Caution: Ensure that you avoid registering two agents with the same IDs. The TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server does not validate whether two agents have registered with the same ID.