The agent framework supports the following entry points:

• open - initializes the environment for a resource before the agent starts to manage it

• monitor - determines the status of a resource

• online - brings a resource online

• offline - takes a resource offline

• clean - terminates ongoing tasks associated with an online or partially-online resource and then forcefully brings the resource offline

• action - starts a defined action for a resource

• info - provides information about an online resource

• attr_changed - responds to a resource's attribute's value change

• close - terminates the environment associated with a resource before the agent stops managing it

• shutdown - called when the agent shuts down

• imf_init- initializes the agent to interface with the IMF notification module

• imf_register - registers or unregisters resource entities with the IMF notification module

• imf_getnotification - gets notifications about the resource state changes from IMF notification module

  Note:

  IMF entry points are supported only on V51 or later versions of agent.

• migrate - migrates a resource.

  Note:

  The migration is supported only on V60 or later agent versions.

• meter - measures the system resource utilization of a VCS resource.

  Note:

  The migration is supported only on V60 or later agent versions.