The services that ESX Agent Manager provides include out-of-the-box integration of agents with vSphere features such as DRS,

AddHost

, High Availability, DRM, and maintenance mode. Each of these features can be difficult to integrate manually. ESX Agent Manager allows you to monitor the health of ESX agents. You can also block users from performing certain operations on ESX agents that might affect the virtual machines that use them. For example, ESX Agent Manager can prevent an ESX agent virtual machine from being powered off or moved from an

ESXi

host that contains other virtual machines that use that agent.

ESX Agent Manager adds an

ESX Agencies

entry to the table of contents under the

Configure

tab of

vSphere ESX Agent Manager

. The

ESX Agencies

tab shows information about running agencies, lists any orphaned ESX agents, and logs information about the ESX agents that ESX Agent Manager manages.