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Oracle VM Agent

Oracle VM Manager communicates with Oracle VM Agent to create and manage guests on an Oracle VM Server. Oracle VM Agent is installed and configured during the installation of Oracle VM Server. You do not need to install Oracle VM Agent separately. Oracle VM Agent is installed into:

/opt/ovs-agent-2.2

Installation logs are located in:

/opt/ovs-agent-2.2/logs/ovs_trace.log

This Chapter discusses the configuration and control of Oracle VM Agent. It contains:

Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool

Configuring Oracle VM Agent

Starting Oracle VM Agent

Stopping Oracle VM Agent

Monitoring Oracle VM Agent

Deploying Oracle VM Agent

Oracle VM Agent API

Oracle VM Agent Utilities

See Appendix D, "Oracle VM Agent Architecture" for more detailed information.

3.1 Oracle VM Agent Command-Line Tool

The ovs-agent command-line tool allows you to configure and control Oracle VM Agent. The following sections discuss using the ovs-agent command-line tool. See "ovs-agent"in Appendix A, "Command-Line Tools" for more details on the ovs-agent command-line tool options.

3.2 Configuring Oracle VM Agent

Oracle VM Agent is configured during installation. A default user is created with the username admin, and the password you set during installation.

You can change the default configuration with the Oracle VM Agent configuration script, ovs-agent. To configure Oracle VM Agent:

1.As root, run the Oracle VM Agent configuration script:

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