Enabling/Disabling Component Discovery by eG Agents

By default, it is the eG manager which discovers components in the target environment. To enable the eG agents to perform component discovery instead, do the following:

1. Select the Enable/Disable option under the Actions sub-node of the Agent Discovery node of the discovery tree.

2. The AGENT DISCOVERY ENABLE/DISABLE page will then appear in the right panel.

3. To enable agent discovery, just click the check box against Agent discovery.

4. Doing so brings up the message box which prompts you to confirm whether/not you want to enable component discovery by eG agents.

5. Click Yes in the message box to enable agent-based component discovery, or No to disable it. If agent discovery is enabled, you can also enable the agents to auto-discover inter-application dependencies - in other words, the capability to auto-discover the ‘topology’. Accordingly, as soon as Yes is clicked in the message box above, a Topology discovery flag will appear.  

6. If you want to enable topology discovery, just select the Topology discovery check box. A message box will then appear requesting your confirmation to enable topology discovery.

7. Click Yes to enable topology discovery, and No to disable it.

8. At any given point in time, you can disable agent-based component discovery by deselecting Agent discovery check box. Note that once ‘Agent discovery’ is disabled, ‘Topology discovery’ will automatically be switched off.