Configuring PATROL Agents to support a forward proxy server

This topic provides instructions to configure a PATROL Agent to communicate with the proxy server. 

You can set up a proxy server in your infrastructure environment so that PATROL Agents can communicate with BMC Helix Operations Management via the proxy server to create an additional layer of security. Setting up a proxy server is optional. To understand how to create a proxy server as a docker container, see Installing a Squid proxy server.

PATROL Agent uses the following variables to configure the proxy server:

• /AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyServer
• /AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyUser
• /SecureStore/mca/tenant/forwardProxyPasswd

You can configure the proxy server in one of the following ways:

• During the installation of PATROL Agents

• After the installation of PATROL Agents

To configure the proxy server during the installation of PATROL Agents

While installing a PATROL Agent, you can provide the proxy server details in the RunSilentInstall install command as shown in the following example:

RunSilentInstall.exe -apikey=a3908418-a963-4e3b-91d1-0664eaf73217 -forwardProxyServer=proxyServer.bmc.com:3128 -forwardProxyUser=user1 -forwardProxyPasswd=user123

 For more information, see Installing PATROL Agents.

To configure the proxy server after the installation of PATROL Agents

After a PATROL Agent is installed, provide the proxy server details by configuring the following variables using the pconfig utility:

• /AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyServer

• /AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyUser

• /SecureStore/mca/tenant/forwardProxyPasswd

The following example shows how to set these configuration variables:

PATROL_CONFIG "/AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyServer" = {REPLACE = "proxyServer.bmc.com:3128"}
PATROL_CONFIG "/AgentSetup/integration/forwardProxyUser" = {REPLACE = "user1"}
PATROL_CONFIG "/SecureStore/mca/tenant/forwardProxyPasswd" = {REPLACE = "MCA/user123"}

Note: Restart the PATROL Agent for the forwardProxyPasswd changes to take effect.

For more information about the pconfig utility, see Using the pconfig utility to modify PATROL Agent configuration variables.