Agents

An agent is an internal background process operating on the server that runs activities on a periodic basis. In a multinode cluster, an agent can run on multiple nodes.

Agents are implemented through two facilities:

• Agents rules – Instances of Rule-Agent-Queue that specify the agents defined for one ruleset, the activity that each agent runs, how the agent handles the queue, and the interval at which the agent runs.
• Agent schedule data instances – Instances of Data-Agent-Queue that determine whether an agent runs.

When you need to modify the behavior of an agent listed in an agents rule in a locked ruleset (for example, any of the standard Pega Platform agents rules), edit one or more of the generated agent schedule data instances.

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