private Agent createAgent(final Properties props) throws IOException, AdminException { DistributionManager.isDedicatedAdminVM = true; SystemFailure.setExitOK(true); final AgentConfigImpl config = createAgentConfig(props); // see bug 43760 if (config.getLogFile() == null || "".equals(config.getLogFile().trim())) { config.setLogFile(AgentConfigImpl.DEFAULT_LOG_FILE); } logger = config.getLogWriter(); OSProcess.redirectOutput( new File(config.getLogFile())); // redirect output to the configured log file return AgentFactory.getAgent(config); }