An Agent Client Collector plugin is a script or group of scripts which provides additional agent capabilities. For example, collecting more metrics, performing more checks, or generating events when an application queue size is 60% or 80% full.

You associate a check with a plugin by creating a dependency between the check and the plugin. A plugin can have a dependency with several checks at a time; similarly, checks can depend on several plugins at a time. Plugins run on the same agent as the check.

For details on the plugins installed with Agent Client Collector Framework, see Plugins or applications installed with ITOM Health.

You can create Agent Client Collector plugins, as needed. Plugins are formatted as tar.gz files and run together with their associated check.