Agents

To run a deployment, Deployment Automation requires an agent or agent relay on the target machine. Typically, an agent is installed in every environment that an application passes through.

An agent is a lightweight process that runs on a target host and communicates with the Deployment Automation server. Agents are integral to the client/server architecture. Agents perform the actual work of deploying components and so relieves the server from the task, making large deployments involving thousands of targets possible.