Editing an Agent Configuration

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Editing an Agent Configuration

The ability to remotely manage the configuration of connected Peer Agents is available from within Peer Management Center.

Note: For customers using clustered file server roles with Windows Failover Cluster, review this knowledge base article: Windows Failover Cluster support for the Peer Agent.  Custom Agent settings must be applied to each potential node in the cluster that may host the Peer Agent.  Contact Peer Software Support for more information.

To edit an Agent's configuration:

1.Right-click the connected Peer Agent in the Agents view:

PA-Edit Agents View

2.Select Edit Agent Configuration.

3.If the following dialog appears, Click OK:

PA-Edit Agent Configuration-Message dialog

The Agent Configuration dialog appears.

PA-Edit Agent Configuration

4.Select a page to edit and make the desired changes:

Broker Configuration

General

Logging

Performance

VM Options

5.Click OK.

For any configuration change to take effect, the selected Peer Agent must be restarted.  If no jobs are running, you will have the option of restarting the Peer Agent at the close of the dialog.

Warning:  Changes to any of these options may result in problems when the Peer Agent restarts.  Ensure all settings are correct before closing the dialog and restarting the selected Peer Agent.