Agent

Every Agent has 2 main functionalities associated with it -

As Schedulers

  1. Agents are the main entities responsible for executing the job schedules.

  2. Each agent can handle multiple job types. For example - Scanning Anypoint Runtime Applications, Performing health ckecks for configured endpoints

  3. Multiple Agents can be started on different machines and one of the Agent` will be chosen as a master

As Workers

  1. While Schedulers schedule the job at configured interval, workers execute the jobs

  2. Workers can execute the jobs in parallel and it concurrency factor is determined by Total Workers parameter.

  3. To view the workers status, navigate to Global Settings → Agents and click on View Workers workers

    1. Free status indicates that the worker is free and ready to pickup new job executions

    2. Executing status indicates that the worker is busy executing a job

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