It would be really nice if the agent could update/upgrade itself. If a plugin container, agent or third party dep jar is upgraded, you have to manually upgrade the agent yourself. It would be cool if we had a "agent upgrade" feature that lets the agent download upgrade jars from the server, in a similar manner how it does it for plugin jars now.
should try to get this done for 1.2 release
link back to forum thread I started on this: http://forums.rhq-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=91
First round of design discussions complete. See: http://support.rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-AgentAutoUpdate
svn rev2340 is the first checkin that contains the code where the agent actually spawns another process to run the update. still not done, but I saw it work once, so I know I'm close :)
svn rev 2437 - restarts the agent after the update is complete
I think with svn rev 2457, that finishes the agent auto-upgrade. This is just the first attempt, there needs to be alot of testing on this stuff.
I tested agent auto-upgrade on windows and linux successfully. Here's some info on how to test this: http://support.rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-AgentAutoUpdate#Design-AgentAutoUpdate-Testing
QA Verified, this feature has been tested.
This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-110 This bug is incorporated by RHQ-550