Agents are modules that plug into the Disaster Recovery Orchestrator framework, and that help manage the components of the configured applications and the various infrastructure resources.

The agents are installed when you install Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Client. These agents start, stop, and monitor the components of the configured applications and report their state changes. If an application or its components fail, these agents restart the applications and their components on the system.

A system requires one agent per component to monitor all the components of that type. For example, a single GenericService agent manages all the services that are configured using the GenericService components. When the agent starts, it obtains the necessary configuration information from these components and then monitors the configured applications. The agent then periodically updates Disaster Recovery Orchestrator with the component and application status.