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A triple containing a configured tracer, weak pointer to the agent controller's mailbox (CQueue) and an expression used to instantiate new agents on the current node.

Starts a management agent for the current node. The agent process must not crash or be killed, so we generally avoid publishing its ProcessId where possible.

Our process is also responsible for forwarding messages to the trace controller, since having two special processes handled via the LocalNode would be inelegant. We forward messages directly to the trace controller's message queue, just as the MxEventBus that's set up on the LocalNode forwards messages directly to us. This optimises the code path for tracing and avoids overloading the node node controller's internal control plane with additional routing, at the cost of a little more complexity and two cases where we break encapsulation.

Forks a new process in which an mxAgent is run.

Start the tracer controller.

Start a dead letter (agent) queue.

If no agents are registered on the system, the management event bus will fill up and its data won't be GC'ed until someone comes along and reads from the broadcast channel (via dupTChan of course). This is effectively a leak, so to mitigate it, we start a dead letter queue that drains the event bus continuously, thus ensuring if there are no other consumers that we won't use up heap space unnecessarily.