About the OpsCenter Agent
The OpsCenter Agent collects data from Backup Exec. The OpsCenter Agent relies on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to perform its functions.
See About the Java Runtime Environment.
It also requires embedded AT (Authentication Service) to authenticate itself with the OpsCenter Server. Both JRE and AT libraries are installed automatically with the Agent installation.
OpsCenter Agent is supported on Windows.
Note:
You must install OpsCenter Server, Agent, and View Builder of the same versions. For example, Server 7.7 is compatible only with Agent 7.7 and View Builder 7.7.
OpsCenter formats the information collected from the following target products and displays it through the OpsCenter console:
NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance
Note:
You do not need to install and configure OpsCenter Agent to collect data from NetBackup. OpsCenter uses NetBackup's NBSL component or bpjava protocol to collect data from NetBackup.
Backup Exec (Windows only)
OpsCenter Server collects NetBackup data using NBSL in the following scenarios:
If you want to collect tape drive information, media, policy and schedule, job, or skipped file data from a NetBackup master server of any supported version.
If you want to collect any data type (except traditional and capacity license data) from NetBackup master servers of 7.6 or later version.
The core of the OpsCenter Agent is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on which you run different data collectors. The OpsCenter Agent communicates with the OpsCenter Server, schedules backup data collection data types, and receives commands through the CORBA API.
As the OpsCenter Server relies on AT to authenticate connections between the OpsCenter Server and OpsCenter Agent, the AT client libraries reside on the Agent host.
The OpsCenter Agent consists of the scheduler, CORBA Client/Server, and data collectors that collect backup data from all available backup applications. The Scheduler and CORBA form the agent core.
These parts of the agent are described in the following topics:
See About the scheduler.