BPPM 9.5 Quick Start - Part 10: PATROL agent installation and configuration

There are several ways to deploy large number of PATROL agents including creating silent installation package using CMA, using RSCD agents in BMC Server Automation (BSA), and using old PATROL Distribution Server.  But if you just need to install a few PATROL agents in a development environment to understand how BPPM 9.5 works, you can just use PATROL installer to install each PATROL agent interactively.

To get PATROL data and events into BPPM server, the first step in PATROL configuration is to specify its data and event destinations.  Since BPPM 9.5 allows you to send both PATROL data and events to the same port on integration service node (ISN), your typical pconfig setting would be:

"/EventSetup/Configuration/Format" = { REPLACE = "BiiP3" },

"/EventSetup/Configuration/Key" = { REPLACE = "mc" }

"/EventSetup/Configuration/ForwardEventsToIS " = { REPLACE = " Yes " }

"/AgentSetup/integration/integrationServices"={REPLACE="tcp:ISN1:3183,tcp:ISN2:3183"} 

where ISN1 and ISN2 are host names for the first ISN and second ISN in high-availability cluster.

If you don't want to send PATROL events to the same port as PATROL data, you can still use what you had in BPPM 9.0 by replacing

"/EventSetup/Configuration/ForwardEventsToIS " = { REPLACE = " Yes " }

with

"/EventSetup/Configuration/EventCells" = { REPLACE = "ISN1/1828,ISN2/1828" }

Once the above configuration is in PATROL agent, you will see  all PATROL agents linked with their ISNs in CMA GUI display.

Next, you will need to add tags to PATROL agent configuration. Here is the format for a tag in pconfig

"/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/<tag_name>" = {REPLACE = "Tag description"}

For example, you may want to define a tag for Windows OS base monitoring.  You will have the following variable in pconfig:

"/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/WinBase" = {REPLACE = "Windows OS Base Monitoring"}

where 'WinBase' is the tag name you created, and it has to match a tag specified in a CMA policy in order to receive the configurations contained in that CMA policy.  "Windows OS Base Monitoring" is a description you give to this tag, and it does not have to match anything.

When the tag in PATROL agent pconfig matches the tag in a CMA policy, CMA will push all its configurations contained in that policy to PATROL agent immediately.  Whenever any configuration is updated in a policy, all PATROL agents with matching tags will receive the same update immediately.  No PATROL agent restart is needed.