3.1.1 Agent types
You can use the following three types of agents in Performance Management.
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This is an agent used by PFM - Agent to monitor a program.
Each agent corresponds to a different monitored program. That is, you must install a separate PFM - Agent agent for each program to be monitored.
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This is an agent used by PFM - RM to monitor a program. This agent is created for each PFM-RM program to be monitored.
PFM - RM uses a single service to monitor multiple objects. This remote agent is a virtual agent that is used to monitor PFM - RM objects in the same way that the PFM - Agent agent is used to monitor programs.
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This is an agent used by PFM - RM to monitor multiple programs simultaneously. Like the remote agent, this is a virtual agent.
A group agent groups multiple remote agent sets in the same PFM - RM. Performance data from a group agent is a collection of performance data from each remote agent in the group. You can summarize the data in various ways, such as totaling or averaging the data.