Changing the state of a mobile agent

Agents can exist in any of three states:

Ready – the running state for a scheduled agent. When you create a schedule for an agent and change that agent’s status to Ready, the agent automatically runs based on the schedule you specified.
Stopped – the state for agents that do not run on a schedule. New agents are always created in a Stopped state. Select Run to run an agent with a Stopped status once.
Deleted – agents that have been deleted. Until you dump the database, the agent record still exists in the portal database table.

To change a mobile agent's state:

From Enterprise Explorer|Mobile Automation|Mobile Agents, select the agent for which you want to change the state, and select:
- Run Once – to run any agent with any status once.
- Set to State – select from these states:
  - Ready
  - Stopped
  - Deleted
create a schedule for the agent and change the agent's status to Ready. See Creating Mobile Agents.