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XBOUND system agents: Overview

Certain tasks in XBOUND (for example, resubmitting tasks or deleting old log messages) cannot be carried out by activities or collectors. Instead these actions are done by system agents, or agents for short, and they are related to maintaining the system.

System agents work in a similar manner as collectors. The main difference is that collectors are configured globally. The configuration of a collector applies to the whole XBOUND system, and collectors are executed with this configuration by every XBOUND Collect Service.

In contrast, an agent must be assigned to each XBOUND System Agent Service that is to execute it. The configuration of the agent applies only for this assignment. Therefore, the area concept is not needed for agents.

You access system agents using the System Agent Manager.

Before a system agent can be assigned to a System Agent Service and configured, you must add it to XBOUND, if it is not part of the XBOUND platform.

Agent

Used for

Agent for Document Resubmit

Providing access to waiting tasks whose waiting times have expired.

Agent for Notification

Checking whether unconfirmed log messages exist, and sends them to specified email recipients.

Agent for Reporting

This agent updates the data for various reports.

Agent for Service Logging Removal

Deleting log messages older than a specified age.

Agent for Session Removal

Deleting XBOUND sessions older than a specified age.

Agent for SLA Notification

Checking whether any root documents fulfill SLA conditions and sending email notifications to specified email recipients.

Agent for Updating Task Status

Assigning tasks a new status.

Configuring a system agent

Exporting and importing agent settings

Windows services in XBOUND