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Agent framework versions details

The following table describes the various agent binaries and its functions.

Agent binary

Description

Agent version V40

The support for action and info entry point is available for agents with agent version V40 or later.

See About the info entry point.

See About the action entry point.

Agent version V50

The AEPTimeout attribute feature is available for agents registered with version V50 or later.

See AEPTimeout.

Support for positional independent ArgListValues is available in agent framework version V50 and later.

See About the ArgList and ArgListValues attributes.

The container support on AIX and Solaris is available in agent framework version V50 or later for containers solaris zones, solaris project and aix wpars.

See ContainerOpts.

Agent version V51

Intentional offline and IMF features are available for agents framework version V51 or later.

See IntentionalOffline.

See About intelligent monitoring framework (IMF) .

There are three new entry points for this feature

  • imf_init

  • imf_register

  • imf_getnotificaiton

See About building a script based IMF-aware custom agent.

Agent version V60

Metering and migration features are available in the agent framework version V60. Entry points meters and migrate is added with this feature.

See About the migrate entry point.

See About the meter entry point.

Note:

Veritas recommends using the latest agent version.
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