Install the Universal Discovery Agent with the Agent Driven Flow Enabled Using Discovery Jobs

  • Document ID:KM03693192
  • Creation Date:20-Aug-2020
  • Modified Date:20-Aug-2020
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Summary

This task describes how to install the Universal Discovery (UD) Agent with the Agent driven flow enabled using discovery jobs on remote machines.

Answer

  1. Prerequisite

    • Add the IP address of the target machine to the IP Range of Data Flow Probe.

      For Range information, see New/Edit Range Dialog Box.

    • Create or import a Universal Discovery Protocol.

      For credential information, see "Supported Protocols" in the Supported Content section of the Content Help.

  2. Enable the Agent driven flow

    To enable the Agent driven flow, do the following:

    • In the Install UD Agent or Update UD Agent job, set the value of EnableAgentDrivenFlow parameter to true.

      For details about the job parameter, see Discovery Modules section of the Content Help.

    • In the DataFlowProbe.properties file, set the value of com.hp.ucmdb.discovery.probe.agents.probemgr.agentdrivenflow.enabled to true. Then restart this Data Flow Probe.

      For details about the DataFlowProbe.properties file, see DataFlowProbe.properties File.

  3. Run discovery jobs

    Run the following jobs in the following order:

    1. Range IPs by ICMP

    2. Host Connection by Shell

    3. Install UD Agent or Update UD Agent

    For details about these jobs, see Discovery Modules section of the Content Help. For details on running jobs, see Module/Job-based Discovery