CA Process Automation - Agents/ Touch points

[venkateswarlu v]

Hello,

CA Process Automation Service Pack 04.3.03

I'm working on automating the few repeated tasks on windows virtual machines using the Process automation application.

The PAM servers are in 'AD domain Group' and the windows virtual machines which i am going to work are in workgroup.

Now, I'm trying to understand the benefits of installing agents on virtual machines to run the power shell scripts.

what are the other possible approaches in achieving this and which approach is robust and reliable.

Thank you,
Venkat

[Michael Niebuhr]

An Agent is basically just a small piece of the Orchestrator that is installed remotely to allow the Orchestrator to easily perform actions on that remote system.

If your goal is to run a PowerShell script on a remote machine the simplest option will be to Install the an Agent on that system. 
Otherwise youll have to run the initial PowerShell script on the Orchestrator and write into that script code for reaching out to and performing whatever actions on the remote server.