METHOD OF DEPLOYING AN AGENT PLATFORM THAT ENABLES CLOUD-BASED MANAGEMENT OF MANAGEMENT APPLIANCES

A method of deploying an agent platform on an agent platform appliance, wherein the agent platform connects management appliances to cloud services executing on a cloud platform, includes the steps of: initiating a sequence of steps to deploy the agent platform on the agent platform appliance; executing the sequence of steps up to a particular checkpoint, and continuing execution of the sequence of steps beyond the particular checkpoint; during the continued execution of the sequence of steps beyond the particular checkpoint, detecting an error; determining that the detected error is a recoverable error; and in response to the determining that the detected error is a recoverable error, resuming execution of the sequence of steps from the particular checkpoint.