If your organization uses multiple services, demand on a Secure Agent group can be high. To reduce the potential demand on a Secure Agent group, you can enable and disable specific Secure Agent services for the group.
Enable Secure Agent services when you want the agents in the group to run the connections, tasks, processes, or product features associated with a service or set of services. When you enable a Secure Agent service, the service starts on each agent in the Secure Agent group.
Disable Secure Agent services when you do not want the agents in the group to run the connections, tasks, processes, or product features associated with a service or set of services. When you disable a Secure Agent service, the service stops on each agent in the Secure Agent group. Any connection, task, process, or product feature that uses the Secure Agent group as the runtime environment no longer runs.
After you make service assignments for a Secure Agent group, you might add or remove agents. When you add a Secure Agent to a group, the agent inherits the service assignments of the group that you add it to.
Enable or disable services for a Secure Agent group on the Runtime Environments page:
Service assignment guidelines
Use the following guidelines when you enable and disable Secure Agent services for a Secure Agent group:
• Before you disable a service, verify that no connection, task, or process that uses the group as the runtime environment requires the service.
If a connection, task, or process has a Secure Agent group selected as the runtime environment and you disable a required service, the task or process cannot run. For example, the connection for a mapping source uses runtime environment RuntimeEnv1. If you disable Data Integration Server on RuntimeEnv1, the mapping task fails at run time.
•Do not disable a service to temporarily stop the service on a Secure Agent. For information about temporarily stopping a service on a Secure Agent, see Stopping and starting services on a Secure Agent.
Enabling or disabling Secure Agent services for a Secure Agent group
You can enable or disable Secure Agent services for Secure Agent groups. When you disable a Secure Agent service, the service can no longer run on any agent in the Secure Agent group.
1In Administrator, select Runtime Environments.
2Expand the Actions menu for the Secure Agent group and select Enable or Disable Services.
A list of all the services for the Secure Agent group is displayed.
3Choose the services to enable or disable.
For more information, see the Secure Agent Services guide.
4Click OK.
The changes affect every Secure Agent in the group.
