This page appears by clicking the Add New Agent button in the External Agent Configuration page.

• The Host IP box indicates the IP address of the system where the agent is to be configured.

• Assign a nick name to the agent in the Nick name field.

• The Host name box depicts the host name of the system where the agent is required to be configured. In the event that the target environment does not use the domain name service (DNS), please specify the host IP itself as the host name.

• If the external agent being added should also serve as remote agent, then set the Add as Remote agent flag to Yes. This will automatically add a remote agent with the same Host IP and Host name as the external agent being configured. This way, you can configure an external and a remote agent at one shot, without having to follow separate procedures to achieve the same.

• The eG Enterprise suite supports client emulation tests. These tests which emulate user accesses to different services/applications, use third party client emulation tools like CitraTest to playback pre-recorded user actions to a service/application. Based on the output of these client emulation tools, the eG tests report the availability and performance of the services being monitored. The client emulation tests are executed by the eG external agents. When configuring an external agent, the administrator must decide whether the agent should be configured to run client emulation tests or not. The selection Client emulation in this page will only appear if the eG license has Client Emulation capability enabled. Note that a dedicated external agent is required for executing the client emulation tests - i.e., an external agent that is configured to execute the client emulation tests cannot execute any other test.

The Update button as always registers the changes made.