Data Discovery & Risk Insights 25.4.1 Help Center

# Agent management

In OpenText Core Data Discovery & Risk Insights, an agent is a worker component that is responsible for communicating with your datasets and processing your data. You install agents within the application environment, one agent per host server, and then group them into clusters. Clustering your agents allows you to optimize performance of your agents and the datasets against which they run processing jobs.

When getting started with the application, manage your agents in the following order:

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