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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Test and debugging your agent
After you use the Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder to create an agent, test the agent.
Test the agent to ensure that the monitoring data you are expecting is the data that is being displayed. By testing your agent, you can learn to modify or tweak settings in the agent to ensure that the data displayed is beneficial and accurate.
You can test your agent from the bottom-up using the following methods:
- Begin using the attribute group test function of Agent Builder to test individual attribute groups one at a time. See Attribute group testing.
- After you complete attribute group testing, you can use the agent test function of Agent Builder to test all attribute groups in your agent together. See Full agent testing.
- You can complete testing by installing your agent and doing further testing together with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. See Install and testing an agent.
- Attribute group testing
You can use attribute group testing to test the attributes groups of the agent you created with Agent Builder, one attribute group at a time. You can test many attribute groups before you complete the attribute group definition. For example, you can initiate testing from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Wizard when you are defining the attribute groups of a new agent. You can also initiate testing from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Component Wizard when you are adding attribute groups to an existing agent.
- Full agent testing
Use full agent testing to test all attribute groups of your agent together. You can also use full agent testing to test data sources that cannot be tested using the attribute group test function.
- Test Environment variables
Use these environment variables to control the behavior of the agent during testing.
- Install and testing an agent
There are two methods for installing and testing the agents that you create with the Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder.
- Configure and starting the agent
Configure and start your agent.
- Agent post-generation and installation results
Results to expect after creation and installation of an agent with Agent Builder.
- Uninstall an agent
You can use one of two procedures to remove an agent that the Agent Builder generated
- Clear the agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
After you remove the agent, clear the agent from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.