About moving ESM agents across managers

You can move agents across the managers to meet the needs of your organization. This functionality makes it easy to manage the managers and agents remotely. You can move a single agent or a group of agents across the managers from the ESM console. When you move an agent to a manager, the agent is automatically registered to the target manager. You do not have to register the agent manually to the target manager. Moreover, the agent that you move automatically gets unregistered from the source manager.

You cannot move an ESM agent to a target manager if the version of the target manager is earlier than the version of the agent. For example, you cannot move an ESM 9.0 agent to an ESM 6.5.3 or 6.0 manager.

Before you move an agent to a target manager, you must ensure that there are no current or no scheduled policy runs on the agent. You must import the available policy run data from the agent by using the Reporting Database Link or the Database Conversion tool.

You can do the following when you move an agent to a new manager:

Select one or multiple agents to move across managers.
Connect to the target manager by either using the account information of the source manager or by using new account information.
Delete or retain the raw reports that are stored on the source manager.

You can move agents from a manager or a domain by using the following options:

Right-click an agent, a manager, or a domain and click Move agent.
Use the drag and drop functionality.

You may choose to cancel a move of multiple agents to the target manager before the operation is complete. However, only the agents that are not yet moved are held back from being moved. In case of a single agent, you cannot cancel moving the agent to the target manager after you have started the operation.

You must have write permissions on the domain that contains the agent that you want to move. If you want to move the agent to a new domain or to an existing domain, the user account of the target manager must have the following rights:

Create new domains.
Modify all domains.
Register agents with manager.
Modify all policies.
Create all domains.

You must have the Create all domains right if you want to move an agent to a newly created domain.

Note:

The move agents functionality is not available for ESM 6.0 agents and ESM 6.0 managers.

See Moving an agent from a manager by right-clicking the agent.

See Moving an agent from a manager by right-clicking the manager.

See Moving agents from a manager by dragging and dropping the source manager.

See Moving an agent from a manager by dragging and dropping on the target manager.

See Moving an agent from a domain by dragging and dropping on the target manager.

See Moving agents by right-clicking a domain.