The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager agent is used for running pre-validations on the IaaS Windows servers before any of the vRealize Automation components are installed.
The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager agent runs as a Windows service. It registers the Windows server as an identified node with the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance. Each Windows server is registered as a node in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
When you run pre-validation, the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager agent is deployed and bootstrapped on the Windows servers with configuration metadata. By default, the agent binaries are located in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\LCMAgent\ folder on the Windows machine.
After the agent binaries are pushed, a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager agent service is run that calls the binaries and starts the agent. The agent works in a pull-based manner. It polls in the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance for commands that are tagged for the current node to be run. After receiving a command, the agent updates the command on every status change and also updates the result after completion. The agent service is stopped after a complete pre-validation.
Uninstall vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager agent
Because every Windows server used for pre-check is registered uniquely, to use the same server on a different instance of the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance, the agent must be un-installed. To see steps to uninstall, see KB 58871.
