Adding PATROL Agents
The Integration Pack for BMC PATROL
provides a single location to specify the connection information to
your PATROL agents. You must add the connection information for any
agents that you want to manipulate using the Integration Pack for
BMC PATROL.
To add a BMC PATROL
agent:
1.
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In the Opalis Integration Server
Client, click the Options
menu and select the BMC
PATROL menu. The
BMC PATROL Settings dialog
appears.
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3.
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Click Default Credentials. The Default credentials dialog appears. If
you do not want to configure default credentials, skip to step
7.
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4.
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In the User name field, type a default user
name to use when connecting to PATROL agents.
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5.
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In the Password field, type the password that
is associated with the user name that you specified.
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6.
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Click OK. The BMC PATROL Settings dialog
appears.
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7.
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Click Add. The Managed system dialog appears.
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8.
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In the Name field, type a name that will be
used to refer to this connection in all other Integration Pack for
BMC Patrol objects.
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9.
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In the Computer field, type the name of the
PATROL agent. You can also use the ellipsis (…) button to browse for the
computer.
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10.
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In the Port field, type the port that is used
to communicate with the PATROL agent. The default value is
3181.
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11.
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Do one of the following:
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Select Use default credentials to use the
default credentials that you configured in steps 3 to 5.
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Unselect Use default credentials and type the
user name and password that will be used with this agent in the
respective fields.
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12.
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Click OK. The entry is added to the
Managed Systems list. A
name will be assigned to the managed system with the value
“agentname_portnumber”. When you select the managed system in the
Integration Pack for BMC PATROL objects, you must use this
name.
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Note: The user that you specify must
have the appropriate rights to create, view, and modify events, as
well as suspend or resume applications.