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Service and connector assignment for Secure Agent groups

Your organization can enable and disable specific Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and connectors that your organization is licensed to use, for a Secure Agent group.

You can perform the following actions:

Enable or disable Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services for a Secure Agent group.: You can enable services such as Data Integration or Application Integration when you want the agents in the group to run the tasks, processes, and product features associated with the service. By default, when you create a Secure Agent group, all services and connectors that your organization is licensed to use are disabled. When you enable a service, the service starts on each agent in the Secure Agent group.; Some services require other services or connectors. If you enable a service that requires other services, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services automatically enables the required services. For example, you enable Data Quality on a Secure Agent group. Data Quality requires Data Integration. When you enable Data Quality, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services automatically enables Data Integration as well.; Disable services when you do not want the agents in the group to run the tasks, processes, or product features associated with the service. When you disable a service, the service stops on each agent in the Secure Agent group. Any task, process, or product feature that uses the Secure Agent group as the runtime environment no longer runs.
Enable or disable connectors for a Secure Agent group.: You can enable specific connectors when you want the agents in the group to be able to communicate with cloud and on-premise applications, platforms, databases and flat files. When you enable a connector, all agents in the group download the packages associated with the connector.; Disable connectors when you do not want the agents in the group to download the packages associated with the connectors. When you disable a connector, any connection that uses the Secure Agent group as the runtime environment no longer runs.
Enable or disable additional services for a Secure Agent group.: You can enable or disable additional services such as Self-Hosted Git Repo or EDC Integration.

You can also enable or disable Secure Agent services for individual Secure Agents within the Secure Agent group. For more information, see Stopping and starting services on a Secure Agent.

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 and connectors for a Secure Agent group on the Runtime Environments page:

The Runtime Environments page shows all runtime environments including the Hosted Agent and all Secure Agent groups. If you expand a group, you can see the agent details including the agent version, status, and last updated date and time.

Service assignment guidelines

Use the following guidelines when you enable and disable 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.
• Before you disable a service, verify that no feature that uses the group as the runtime environment requires the service.

If a feature has a Secure Agent group selected as the runtime environment and you disable a required service, the feature cannot be used. For example, the runtime environment for Enterprise Data Catalog integration is set to RuntimeEnv2. If you disable EDC Search Service on RuntimeEnv2, you can no longer perform data catalog discovery.

• When you create a connection, select a runtime environment in which the required services are enabled.

For example, you want to create an Advanced SFTP connection for a file ingestion task target. When you create the connection, select a runtime environment in which the Mass Ingestion service is enabled.

•If you configure your organization to store connection properties locally, the Data Integration service must be enabled for the Secure Agent group.

Enabling or disabling services and connectors for a Secure Agent group

You can enable or disable Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and connectors for a Secure Agent group. By default, all services and connectors are disabled in newly-created Secure Agent groups. Enable the services and connections you want to run on the group.

1In Administrator, select Runtime Environments.

2Expand the Actions menu for the Secure Agent group and select Enable or Disable Services and Connectors.

A dialog box listing all the services and connectors for the Secure Agent group is displayed.

3On the Services tab, choose the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services to enable or disable.

Certain services may be listed in the Additional Services tab.

4On the Connectors tab, choose the connectors to enable or disable.

5On the Additional Services tab, select the Secure Agent services to enable or disable.

For example, if your organization uses source control, and you want to disable it on your Secure Agent group, disable the GitRepoConnectApp service.

The services that appear in this list vary based on your licenses. You might not see any services listed here.

6Click OK.

The changes affect every Secure Agent in the group.

Service and connector assignment example

Your organization uses Data Integration and has licenses for mass ingestion and for Enterprise Data Catalog data discovery.

The organization uses the following Secure Agent groups:

•Group 1: Secure Agent 1, Secure Agent 2 , Secure Agent 3
•Group 2: Secure Agent 4
•Group 3: Secure Agent 5

By default, users in your organization can select any group as the runtime environment for any connection or any task, including file ingestion tasks. An administrator can also select any group as the runtime environment for integration with Enterprise Data Catalog.

To balance the load across Secure Agent groups, you want might want to reserve Group 1 for Data Integration tasks except file ingestion tasks, Group 2 for file ingestion tasks, and Group 3 for data catalog discovery.

Therefore, you enable and disable the following Secure Agent services:

Secure Agent Group	Enabled Services	Disabled Services
Group 1	Data Integration Server	Mass Ingestion, EDC Search Agent
Group 2	Mass Ingestion	Data Integration Server, EDC Search Agent
Group 3	EDC Search Agent	Data Integration Server, Mass Ingestion

To avoid task and feature failures, you must also verify the following settings:

•All Data Integration tasks except file ingestion tasks use Group 1 as the runtime environment. All connections that these tasks use also use Group 1 as the runtime environment.
•All file ingestion tasks use Group 2 as the runtime environment. All connections that these tasks use also use Group 2 as the runtime environment.
•On the Organization page in Administrator, the Enterprise Data Catalog integration properties use Group 3 as the runtime environment.