About configuring the RemoteGroup agent

The RemoteGroup agent monitors and manages service groups in a remote cluster. Use the RemoteGroup agent to establish dependencies between applications that are configured on different VCS clusters.

For example, you configure an Apache resource in a local cluster, and configure an Oracle resource in a remote cluster. In this example, the Apache resource in the local cluster depends on the Oracle resource in the remote cluster. You can use the RemoteGroup agent to establish this dependency between the service groups that contain the Apache resource and the Oracle resource, if you add the RemoteGroup agent as a resource in the Apache service group.

See the Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide for more information about the agent and its attributes.

Note:

RemoteGroup agent configurations and Virtual Business Service configurations are mutually exclusive though both provide multi-tier application support.

For information about Virtual Business Services, see the Virtual Business Service - Availability User's Guide.