Agent-pools

Every agent-pool on this Spider server: the shared pools, whose agents work for every organization, and every organization's own. An agent-pool is a group of agents that work as one: each agent registers into its pool with one of the pool's tokens, and takes on the pool's capabilities.

An organization's own pools show on its Agent-pools page too. A shared pool is managed only here.

How to get there

• From Administration's Settings: Agent-pools, in the Spider group.

Permission

The page needs View agent-pools. Add agent-pool and Edit need Add and change agent-pools, and Delete needs Delete agent-pools. They are in the Agents section of Administration's Permissions, and Full access allows them all. Choosing an organization for a new pool also needs View organizations. See Permissions.

The list

Column	Shows
Name	The pool's name.
Organization	The organization that owns it, or Shared.
Description	What the pool is for.

Click Name or Organization to sort.

Double-click a pool, or select it and click Open, to see its page: see Agent-pool.

Commands

Tab	Group	Command	What it does	Disabled when
Home, List	New	Add agent-pool	Adds a pool: see Add agent-pool.
Home, List	Open	Open	Opens the selected pool's page.	Nothing is selected.
List	Open	Open in new tab	Opens it in a new browser tab.	Nothing is selected.
List	Manage	Edit	Changes the selected pool's name and description.	Nothing is selected, or you may not change this one.
Home, List	Manage	Delete	Deletes the selected pool, after asking.	Nothing is selected, or you may not delete this one.
Home, List	View	Refresh	Reads the list again.
Home	Share	Copy link	Copies the link to the selected pool, or to this page.

Drawers and dialogs

Add agent-pool

• Name: the pool's name.
• Description: what the pool's instances are, such as where they run.
• Organization: the organization that owns the pool, or empty for a shared pool, whose agents work for every organization. It can't be changed later.

Click Add, or Cancel. Edit opens the same fields without Organization, titled Change Agent-pool, with Change. When adding or changing fails, Spider says so: The agent-pool could not be added. Please try again shortly., or … changed …. A name in use already gives that message too.

Then add a token on the pool's Tokens tab, and start the agents with it.

Delete Agent-pool

Are you sure you want to delete this agent-pool? Its tokens stop authenticating, so no instance can register into it any more. Click Yes to delete it, or No. A pool that still has agents can't be deleted: delete them on Agents first.

Related chapters

• Agent-pool
• Agents
• Agent-pools, in an organization's settings.