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.

Prerequisites

Start the agent for the corresponding product.
As an example, this procedure uses an example of a Tomcat agent.

Procedure

  1. Login to TIBCO Enterprise Administrator. The username and the password is admin.
    The landing page is displayed.
  2. Click the Agents card.
    The Agent Management Pane is displayed.
  3. By default, the Agents tab is selected. Click Register New.
    The Register Agent window is displayed.
  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 Agents pane. The agent card on the landing page also shows an increase in number for every registered agent.

    Attention: Watch out for the following:
    1. 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.
    2. If the URL used during registration is invalid, the 404-Page not Found error occurs.
    3. 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.
    4. 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.