Agent Installation

The Agent installation installs Control-M/Agent. Additional Agents enable you to run jobs on multiple computers. This enhances performance and creates greater load balancing control.

If you are installing an Agent on Linux, complete the pre-install procedures, as described in Agent Pre-installation Procedures for Linux and the post install procedures, as described in Agent Post-installation Procedures.

Control-M/Agent requires an external Java library. To ensure that Java libraries remain updated, Java library deliveries are decoupled from Control-M/Agent and not part of the installation. For more information, see Control-M External Java Installation.

Before you install an Agent, verify that your operating system and processor are supported and that your minimum requirements for memory and diskspace are met. Depending on your operating system, verify that your system meets one of the following requirements:

Agent System Requirements for Windows
Agent System Requirements for Linux

You can install multiple Agents (including Agent and Helix Agent together) on the same host machine, but the following requirements must be met:

Each Agent must be installed on a separate account (Linux only).

Each Agent must have a unique name.
Each Agent or Helix Agent must be version 9.0.21.100 or higher.
Any plug-in that is installed on multiple Agents on the same Windows machine must be the same version.

To install an Agent on Windows or Linux, see Installing an Agent.

If you use a proxy server to connect to the Internet, you must ensure that the proxy server settings are defined, as follows:

Linux: The HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables must be defined in the format {host}:{port}.

The environment variables are non-case sensitive, even though other applications, such as wget require lower case.

https://172.19.0.169:3128

server.com:3128
Windows: In the Internet Options window, verify that the Use a proxy server is enabled and the Address and Port fields are configured correctly in Settings > Proxy.

Address: 172.19.0.169

Port: 3128

To configure a proxy, see 000395679. To configure a proxy with a self-signed certificate, see 000411157.

Agent System Requirements for Windows

The following table lists the prerequisite requirements for a Windows platform. These values represent the minimum requirement for an entry level deployment. For higher capacity workloads, add resources.

Resource	Specification
Compatible Processors	x86_64
CPU and Memory	100 concurrent jobs or less: CPU: 2 Memory: 4 GB CPU SPEC: 90
100–250 concurrent jobs: CPU: 4 Memory: 6 GB CPU SPEC: 180
Disk Space BMC Software recommends that you reserve three times the amount of RAM in the system for swap space.	1,150 MB

Agent System Requirements for Linux

The following table lists the prerequisite requirements for Agent on a Linux platform. These values represent the minimum requirement for an entry level deployment. For higher capacity workloads, add resources.