Manage agents
Ways to manage
Manage your DigiCert® agents from the DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager Discovery & automation tools > Agents page in the following ways:
Hover the name of an agent and select the pencil icon to update its name or select an action from the actions (three dots) menu.
Use the checkboxes to select multiple agents and select an action from the Bulk actions dropdown for one of them.
Select an agent by name to view the agent details page, and from there select the pencil icon to update its configuration or select an action from the actions menu on the right.
If there are agents with deployment/configuration issues or in need of manual approval, an Alerts section appears above the agents table. Select the shortcut links in this section to take appropriate follow-up actions.
Sugerencia
Use your account dashboard to monitor and launch pre-filtered views of agents with different statuses.
Management actions
Available management actions depend on the current agent configuration and status, and whether the action is run for an individual agent or multiple agents in bulk. The below tables summarize possible actions by category.
Configuration
Action | Description |
|---|---|
Assign/Update business unit | Assign or update the business unit an agent is assigned to. Only admins for the business unit can manage the assigned agents. |
Assign/Update delivery location | Assign or update the directory where an agent will deliver certificates enrolled using the admin web request method. |
Assign/Update group | Assign or update the agent group an agent belongs to. Agent groups facilitate management of multiple agents at once. |
Assign scripts | Assign pre/post-install or SNI scripts to agents. |
Edit agent name | Change the nickname assigned to an agent to help identify it in Trust Lifecycle Manager. |
Enable/Disable service restart | Enable or disable the post-install service restart feature for agents. When enabled, each agent automatically restarts the local web server application after installing a certificate during an automation event. |
Software updates
Action | Description |
|---|---|
Enable/Disable auto-update | Enable or disable the software auto-update feature for agents. When enabled, each agent automatically keeps itself up-to-date by pulling new software versions from Trust Lifecycle Manager. |
Update version | Manually update the software on an agent when a new version is available and auto-update is disabled. |
System scan
Action | Description |
|---|---|
Configure | Configure the system scan feature for agents to discover digital trust assets on the local server system. |
Resume/Suspend | Resume or suspend system scanning for agents. |
Operational
Action | Description |
|---|---|
Refresh configuration | Force activation of SNI domains after updating an agent's Server Name Indication (SNI) configuration. Used to discover and manage SNI certificates immediately after making updates without waiting for the agent to perform its daily refresh. |
Resume/Suspend | Temporarily suspend agent operations, or resume a suspended agent. |
View managed certificates | Load certificates under management by the selected agent(s) into your Inventory, where you can view and manage them. |
View unsecured IP/ports | Load unsecured IP/ports discovered by the selected agent(s) into your Inventory, where you can deploy new certificates to secure these target endpoints. |
Void | Permanently remove an agent from operation. |