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Developing an agent means developing the entry points that the agent can call to perform operations on a resource, such as to bring a resource online, to take a resource offline, or to monitor the resource.
The agent framework supports the following commonly used entry points:
monitor - determines the status of a resource
info - provides information about an online resource
online - brings a resource online
offline - takes a resource offline
clean - terminates ongoing tasks for a resource being taken offline
action - starts a defined action for a resource
The agent framework also supports the following rarely needed entry points:
attr_changed - responds to a resource's attribute's value change
open - initializes a resource before the agent starts to manage it
close - deinitializes a resource before the agent stops managing it
shutdown - called when the agent shuts down
This chapter contains descriptions of each of the supported entry points.
See Agent entry points.