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Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a BMC Helix Operations Management environment. If you are a TrueSight Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent 22.1.

Agent-Console relationship

The PATROL Agent can manage several aspects of its relationship with various types of PATROL consoles and other utilities. Following are some of the aspects:

  • Types of consoles that connect to the agent
  • Types of PEM messages the agent sends to the PEM Console
  • Where UNIX applications display their information
  • How the agent behaves if no consoles connect to it
  • Who can connect to the agent

This section details how to manage agent-console relationship using variables.

 

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BMC PATROL Agent for BMC Helix Operations Management 22.1