Through this page, you can control the Catalog Agent including starting, stoping, or retrieving status information about the Catalog Agent. If the Catalog Agent is not currently running, then you can use this button to start the Catalog Agent manually. If the Catalog Agent is currently running, then you can use this button to retrieve status information about the Catalog Agent. It may take a few minutes to retrieve this information, so please be patient. If the Catalog Agent is currently running, then you can use this button to force the Catalog Agent to stop enumerating, but to finish generating resource descriptions for those URLs already enumerated. If the Catalog Agent is currently running, then you can use this button to force the Catalog Agent to stop completely. The Catalog Agent will attempt a graceful shutdown and will attempt to register all of the RD's that it generated. If the Catalog Agent is currently running, then you can use this button to force the Catalog Agent to stop abruptly.

WARNING: the Catalog Agent will not attempt a graceful shutdown, so you may loose some of its results.